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judo competition Sunday night, officially for missing weight on the day before he was scheduled to take on Tohar Butbul of Israel.The bout was scheduled to be the first in the men’s 73-kilogram division Monday, but given its political implications, many suspected it would not happen from the moment Dris and Butbul were matched in the random draw last week.
Israel’s presence at the Paris Games has been protested at various points since the beginning of Israel’s offensive in Gaza last year, but the IOC and France’s government have firmly backed Israel’s right to participate. Dris didn’t immediately make a statement about his circumstances. Missing weight — he came in at 73.4 kilograms — would be a legitimate excuse to leave the Olympics, although highly trained judokas rarely miss weight.
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