The multi-laureate judoka from Ciego de Ávila, Jorge Martínez Wilson will participate in one of the most difficult tournaments in his sporting life, when he goes out this Sunday to the AccorArena multipurpose room, to dispute a place in the 81 kilograms —the most popular division, with 60 athletes— in the Grand Slam of Paris, which will be held on the fourth and fifth of this month in the City of Light.

Martínez, an 11-time medalist in several tournaments and with international experience, arrives for the second time (the other was in 2013) at the Parisian event with only one major competition, the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, in 2019, where he obtained a bronze medal, losing to Medickson del Orbe, from the Dominican Republic, ranked 29th in the world and also present in Paris.

Tato Grigalashvili (Georgia), Matthias Case (Belgium), Guilherme Schimidt (Brazil), Vedat Albayrak (Turkey), Joonhwan Lee (Korea), Shamil Borchashvili (Austria) Oumar Alpha Djalo (France) and Frank De Wit (Netherlands), among the first 14 in the world lead the Cuban athlete, but in judo a second can delimit the time between victory and defeat.

From Paris, Martínez Wilson confessed, by telephone, that he is fully aware of the level of competition and the rivals he will face, almost all from the world elite, which is why he will face each one with different combat strategies, previously designed in the training base in Hungary. «I don't think I'm at the top of my preparation, because unlike many of my colleagues, internationally I have stopped attending important competitions. That could be the difference, but the tatami says the last word ».