Incredibly long winning streaks come as natural to Saori Yoshida as enjoying ice cream cones on hot summer days for the rest of us.
For the record, freestyle wrestler Yoshida¡¯s 58-match winning streak came to an end on Sunday at the World Cup meet in Tokyo. Russia¡¯s Valeria Zholobova, just 19 years old, was the better grappler in their match. For anyone else, 58 straight wins would seem like an out-of-this-world accomplishment. For Yoshida, however, the bar is set so high, that a loss, any loss, is a jaw-dropping, stop-the-presses shocker.
¡°Going to London will mean nothing if I don¡¯t three-peat, so I have to fix the problems which need addressing,¡± Yoshida was quoted as saying by Kyodo News after Sunday¡¯s defeat at Yoyogi National Gymnasium.
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