2012年5月28日星期一

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The 1964 Olympics took place in Tokyo, Japan, where judo started back in 1882. At the beginning there was a discussion whether or not to include this discipline and if yes as a demonstration event or full event? Needless to say judo was featured for the first time as full event and even then for the judokas cutting weight was an issue they had to face. There were four weight divisions: up to 68kg, up to 80kg, over 80kg and Open (no weight), the only division where making weight was not relevant and the only one where the Japanese did not win the gold, which went to Anton Geesink from the Netherlands. An outstanding moment in judo's history.
Twenty five athletes entered in the up to 68kg division burberry shirt orange ranging from 18 to 35 years, from 163cm to 177cm, some of them with no weight problems and other having to suffer hell in order to make it. There was one particular orange burberry shirt athlete who was found sitting on the scale early in the morning the day of his competition waiting for the official weigh-in to open as he was about to faint for all he had done in the previous weeks: for him, a strong judoka, making weight had become a nightmare.
In those days, the early 60s, most judokas had to rely upon "do it yourself judo cutting weight methods", which consisted of cutting food, drinking, saunas and so on with no specific clue on a scientific approach to the matter. The athlete who was sitting on the scale the morning of his competition had been training four hours a day the weeks prior burberry polo shirt to the competition and eating two nashis (Japanese apple/pear) at breakfast, two at lunch and two at dinner with a special treat at lunch: the juice of a squeezed steak. What a great way to face an Olympic competition.
Today most of the high level athletes, that enter the Olympic judo squad, can rely upon different staff members taking care of their specific needs: physical (doctor and physiotherapist) , nutrition (dietician), psychological (psychologist). Therefore their performance might not be as affected when it come to cutting or making weight. Of course to this, one needs to add also all the studies, that have been made in the last decades on nutrition and their effects on the human body, which were not available in the early sixties.

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