www.judoinside.com 28/03
Georgia celebrates first gold by Lasha Bekauri
At the Grand Slam of Tbilisi the host country was obviously waiting for the day with their best chances of podium finishes. The first judoka that an entire nation was looking forward to was Olympic champion Lasha Bekauri. In his lively and timely style, Bekauri had to pull out all the stops, pushed by the cheers of the public, to get rid of the traps of the first rounds. He knew it, nothing would be easy, especially since he was not the number 1 seed of the tournament. That place was occupied by his compatriot Beka Gviniashvili but the latter was eliminated before the quarter-finals by Theodoros Tselidis (GRE).