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Fabio Basile back to U66kg weight class
Former Olympic Champion Fabio Basile (ITA) has announced through his Instagram page that he is now back to U66kg. This phenomenon seldom happens. Once a player moves up a weight, they tend to stay there although we did see the great Ilias Iliadis flirt with moving up to -100kg during brief periods in 2012 and 2013. After that experiment, he moved back down to -90kg, where he stayed until his retirement after the 2016 Rio Olympics, where he crashed out after a shock defeat in the first round. Bernadette Graf did it quite recently with success in the beginning of both switches.