www.judoinside.com 26/06
Gonchigsuren Batkhuyag celebrates victory with Mongolian home crowd
Varlam Liparteliani (GEO) remains a phenomenon. Many athletes and fans thought he had stopped, at the Grand Slam in Ulaanbaatar he got injured and athletes thought he would stop, but Liparteliani doesn’t. He was in the final of a Grand Slam once again. At 34, the world and Olympic medallist still wants it and his fighting spirit is in tact. 10th in the ranking list for the moment, he remains a judoka that no-one in the category really wants to meet, in the hope of an easy bout.