Nadi Arena (8/8/24)
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00:00Azizul's fight in the knockout round stopped at the 1-8 repercharge round.
00:12The 36-year-old wrestler was in third place behind Matthews Rudik from Poland and Mikhail Yakovlev.
00:20Azizul had to fight in the repercharge after losing to Geoffrey Hoogland from the Netherlands,
00:26who also won the Tokyo Olympics.
00:30The race was technically perfect, but I didn't have enough speed.
00:36He used a bigger gear and used the track to lay off my charge.
00:42So we were side-by-side and just lost on the line.
00:45It was a fast race and I was seventh.
00:47After that, John said, for the repercharge, just take it easy.
00:53It's not that we gave up, but just to save the leg for tomorrow and the next day.
00:59So we had two days to recover and focus on our best chances event, which is Kirin.
01:07If I had gone through the repercharge earlier, I would have met Harry.
01:13So there's no point in meeting Harry in the quarter and then race for the next round.
01:19It would have wasted a lot of energy.
01:21So we tried to focus 100% on the Kirin.
01:24Overall, is it a good sign for Kirin based on today's performance?
01:28It's a very good sign and John was happy.
01:31He saw that I had a good leg and good speed.
01:36I know that in the Kirin, we can do some dangerous and fast moves.
01:45Hopefully, there will be no obstacles or obstacles in the Kirin.
01:52I hope that Shah and I can go through to the final.
01:56In spite of the failure, Azizul managed to renew his national record in the event.
02:04According to the record, 9.402 seconds in the qualification round
02:09surpassed the 9.523 seconds record in June last year.
02:15In the third round, without going through the repercharge,
02:19Dato' Azizul Hasni seemed to show an increase in performance
02:23even though the achievement remains the same as in Tokyo 2020.
02:28This also shows a positive sign,
02:31as the Rocketman pocket is full of excitement in the Kirin event
02:35which is also his favourite event in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
02:41Zuhair Mizan-Azam from Belladrome, Saint-Quentin and Orleans for Nadi Arena.