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Shocking moment Olympic athlete disqualified after bizarre feud with opponent

Shocking moment Olympic athlete disqualified after bizarre feud with opponent

Now that's got to hurt

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Oh sure, we’re only watching the Olympics for the sports and to cheer on our teams.

No, let’s be honest, it’s also all the drama (Mick), we love it. From the GOAT Simone Biles' savage digs at her ex-teammate to athletes getting sent home from the Village for breaking the rules.

And obviously, we’re always routing for the athletes at the Olympics, no one wants to see them do badly.

But there was a shocking moment yesterday (2 August) when one competitor was disqualified after a bizarre feud with their opponent.

Guram Tushishvili of Georgia faced France’s Teddy Riner in the men’s 100kg judo competition quarter-final.

Now that's got to hurt. (Xavier Laine/Getty Images)
Now that's got to hurt. (Xavier Laine/Getty Images)

Riner had already picked up gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and of course had the crowd backing him when he landed a winning move on Tushishvili.

But the Georgian didn’t seem to take it too well as when he ended up laying on his back and the Frenchman’s win was called, he pushed his leg upwards.

This then essentially lifted Riner up by his crotch and sent him backwards onto the floor.

Tushishvili then got to his feet and seemed to push the bloke’s head into the canvas before walking away.

But the champ wasn’t having that and attempted to hold on to him, with the Georgian then seeming to push him back down with a thrust of the hips.

A nightmare for the Georgian. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
A nightmare for the Georgian. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Officials then gave Tushishvili a red card for this bizarre behaviour with a Eurosport commentator saying: “What is this aggressiveness? This is not OK. This will get Georgia disqualified.”

The pair eventually shook hands but it was confirmed that Tushishvili did get disqualified.

The International Judo Federation (IJF) said in a statement: “Following the incident that took place at the end of the quarter-final between Teddy Riner (FRA) and Guram Tushishvili (GEO) in the +100 kg weight category, the behaviour of the Georgian judoka was against the 'spirit of judo,’ an ad hoc disciplinary commission was called immediately together to investigate the situation.”



It was decided that Tushishvili is suspended from the individual competition, isn’t allowed to compete in the repechage and is suspended from participating in today’s (3 August) mixed team event.

The athlete is also suspended from participating in any international judo competition until the IJF Disciplinary Commission meets to give a final decision. There are going to be further investigations conducted to ‘determine what happened’.

And as for Riner, he went on to pick up the gold for the men’s +100kg judo.

Team GB's current medal count - 30

Gold medallists

  • Rosalind Canter, Laura Collett, Tom McEwen: Equestrian - Eventing team
  • Tom Pidcock: Mountain Bike - Men's cross country
  • Nathan Hales: Shooting - Men's trap
  • Tom Dean, Kieran Bird, James Guy, Jack McMillan, Matthew Richards, Duncan Scott: Swimming - Men's 4x200m freestyle
  • Alex Yee: Men's triathlon
  • Lauren Henry, Lola Anderson, Hannah Scott and Georgina Brayshaw: Rowing - Women's quadruple sculls
  • Bryony Page: Gymnastics - Women's individual trampoline
  • Emily Craig and Imogen Grant: Rowing - Women's lightweight double sculls
  • Ben Maher, Harry Charles and Scott Brash: Equestrian - Team jumping
  • Sholto Carnegie, Rory Gibbs, Morgan Bolding, Jacob Dawson, Charlie Elwes, Tom Digby, James Rudkin and Tom Ford: Rowing: Men's eight

Silver medallists

  • Anna Henderson: Cycling - Women's individual time trial
  • Adam Peaty: Swimming - Men's 100m breaststroke
  • Tom Daley and Noah Williams: Diving - Men's synchronised 10m platform
  • Adam Burgess: Canoe Slalom - Men's canoe single
  • Matthew Richards: Swimming - Men's 200m freestyle
  • Kieran Reilly: Cycling - Men's BMX Freestyle
  • Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten: Rowing - Women's coxless four
  • Oliver Wynne-Griffith and Thomas George: Rowing - Men's pair
  • Benjamin Proud: Swimming - Men's 50m freestyle
  • Duncan Scott: Swimming - Men's 200m individual medley

Bronze medallists

  • Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen: Diving - Women's synchronised 3m springboard
  • Kimberley Woods: Canoe - Women's slalom
  • Laura Collett: Equestrian - Eventing individual
  • Beth Potter: Women's triathlon
  • Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson: Diving - Women's synchronised 10m platform
  • Oliver Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson: Rowing - Men's coxless four
  • Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde: Rowing - Women's double sculls
  • Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding: Diving - men's synchronised 3m springboard
  • Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Holly Dunford, Emily Ford, Lauren Irwin, Eve Stewart, Harriet Taylor and Annie Campbell-Orde - Rowing: Women's eight
  • Emma Wilson: Sailing: Women's windsurfing
Featured Image Credit: Xavier Laine/Getty Images / Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Topics: Olympics, Sport

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is an Entertainment Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include keeping up with the Twitter girlies, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021 and has previously worked at MyLondon.

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