Frenchman Teddy Riner won the gold in the +100kg division on Friday, making history as the first athlete to win four gold medals at the Olympics in judo. South Korea's Kim Minjong took silver while Tajikistan's Temur Rakhimov and Alisher Yusupov of Uzbekistan were both awarded bronze.
The stands at Champs de Mars filled up quickly. One fan dressed in a white martial arts uniform waved a French flag back and forth. A woman next to him held up a poster with the face of one of the biggest sports stars in France. Crowds of people bounced up and down to so excitably it shook the floor of the arena, where judo is being played in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
