"Tragedy" for Horne, unconscious Olympic champion: karate premiere with bad pictures

A serious injury stopped karate world champion Jonathan Horne at the Olympic premiere. In addition, a unconscious Olympic champion and a "fingered" fight.

World Champion Jonathan Horne rolled on the mat and screamed in pain, the forearm was in an unnatural angle. Two and a half hours later, the referees chorted an unconscious Olympic champion, provided with oxygen mask and neck crash. Karate delivered bad pictures and scandal at his premiere in mythical martial art stamp Nippon Budokan.

"These are the things that many people remain in memory," said sport director Christian Green from the German Karate Association (DKV) the sid: "But that should not be the overall impression of Karate. There were also spectacular, exciting fights on three competition days. "

Another elbow had stopped the German gold favorites Horne already in the second preliminary fight - five seconds before the end. Olympia ended for the 32-year-old on the wearing, with extreme pain and serious consequences. The right elbow was still retrained in the hall. But: "Because it took so long, there had been further injuries of the ribbons and muscles," Green said. Horne must be operated on several tapes.

Karate: Olympic champion Sajad Ganjzadeh hit his head

Vice world champion Sajad Ganjzadeh went a few seconds before the end of the final after a foot hit of Saudis Tareg Hamedi Gar K.o. Even while the Iranian was treated hectic, the referees disqualified his opponent who had led 4-1. Hansoku - the kick against his head, which Bruce Lee had jealous, was considered a serious rule break. At the award ceremony, Ganjzadeh still had a headache, but was "happy to have won the medal".

Horne was already a trained, a bone break has been excluded. The MRI on Sunday confirmed the suspicion of tapes. The Kaiserslautlerer had led in the heavyweight after a 4-4 draw in the first fight against the Kazakh World Cup-fifth Danijar JuldaShev in the second duel 4: 3 against the Georgian Gogita Arkania, before the injury stopped him. "He was in top shape and would certainly have to be fair to his favorite role," said DKV President Wolfgang Weigert: "It's a tragedy."

Even before the drama around Horne Noah Bitsch had taken care of for excitement. The EM third had a medal narrowly missed on Friday in class up to 75 kg and raised heavy allegations against his opponents. "Fairplay is actually belonging to Olympia. That was not Olymposis, what they have brought," said the EM third for his preliminary round.

In his view, the two-time world champion Rafael Aghajew from Azerbaijan had gained the later Olympic champion Luigi Busa from Italy in the last pool fight, so that he also moved into the semifinals. National coach Thomas Nitschmann spoke of a "fingered" fight.

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No good advertising for the Japanese martial arts, which no longer belongs to the Olympic program in Paris. You must now "work on to advance karate," greener, "for it became more attractive and we get chances to be back in 2028."