Klimkait v Deguchi - The Race For Tokyo - Part 1 - Bullet Train

One of the greatest rivalries in recent years saw Jessica Klimkait and Christa Deguchi vying for Canada’s 🇨🇦 -57kg Place at the Tokyo Olympics.
Part 1 sees Christa Deguchis glorious run culminating at the Tokyo World Championships.
Both girls started judo around the age of four, born on opposite sides of the world a year apart, Christa the elder. From those first tentative steps, their sporting destinies entwined.
When she started fighting under the Maple Leaf of Canada, Deguchi set off like a Bullet Train with never a backward glance, she was a medal machine manufacturing mainly Gold.
In a few short years she was Nine times Masters/Grand Slam/Grand Prix winner, twice continental Champion and 2019 World Champion, one year out from the Olympics.
Along the way beating Jessica Klimkait her rival for selection 6:0.
At the Tokyo World Championships, Christa returned the prodigal daughter, beating Yoshida in the Final for Gold, in front of a packed Japanese crowd.
As she left those World Championships, for anyone looking on, her Olympic dream was all but secured.
Isaac Asimov could not have predicted what befell Christa Deguchi entering 2020, looking forward to representing Canada, at the Tokyo Olympic Games at the home of judo and the land of her birth.