www.judoinside.com 06/08
Laura Fazliu suddenly Olympic medal candidate for Kosovo
The final of the Budapest Masters for women U63kg was perhaps not quite the one expected at the beginning of the day but once here and seeing it unfold, it was possible to see the Kosovan Laura Fazliu as the eventual gold medallist. Tactically and physically she measured the fight. Megumi Takaichi is no pushover though and her feeling for counters and her ability to anticipate are truly elite and she was always ready for the next attack, applying her own strong left-handed gripping as preparation for something big. Fazliu who discreetly took the opportunity to slip into the final, in a quarter of the table where the seeded Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard (CAN) was eliminated prematurely.