{"id":88025,"date":"2021-07-24T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=88025"},"modified":"2021-07-24T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T14:08:53","slug":"03-00-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=88025","title":{"rendered":"Olympics: Algerian Judoka Withdraws to Avoid Facing Israeli Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Olympics: Algerian Judoka Withdraws to Avoid Facing Israeli Opponent<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Reuters <\/strong>& Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s judoka Tohar Butbul competes in China, December 12, 2019. Photo: International Judo Federation<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

An Algerian judoka has withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics before his event starts, after the draw set him on course for a possible match-up against an Israeli.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fethi Nourine told Algerian TV that his political support for the Palestinian cause made it impossible for him to compete against Tohar Butbul.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked a lot to reach the Olympics, and the news came as a shock, a thunder,\u201d he told the channel late on Thursday. Nourine said his decision was \u201cfinal,\u201d and he would not \u201cget his hands dirty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The 30-year-old was due to face Sudan\u2019s Mohamed Abdalrasool on Monday for his first match in the men\u2019s 73 kg class. A victory would have paired him with Butbul \u2014 who has a first-round bye \u2014 in the next round.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not the first time that Nourine has withdrawn from competition to avoid facing an Israeli opponent. He pulled out of the 2019 world championships in Tokyo for the same reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were unlucky with the draw. We got an Israeli opponent and that\u2019s why we had to retire. We made the right decision,\u201d Nourine\u2019s coach Amar Ben Yaklif was quoted as saying in Algerian media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Athletes from other countries, including Iran and Egypt, have also previously refused to compete against Israelis.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Olympics: Algerian Judoka Withdraws to Avoid Facing Israeli Opponent Reuters & Algemeiner Staff Israel\u2019s judoka Tohar Butbul competes in China, December 12, 2019. Photo: International Judo Federation An Algerian judoka has withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics before his event starts, after the draw set him on course for a possible match-up against an Israeli. Fethi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88044,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88025\/revisions\/88044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}