Many Olympic viewers were disgusted with the behavior of Egyptian judoka, El Shehaby, after his loss to Israeli, Or Sasson, on Friday afternoon.
After winning his match via ippon, Sasson walked up and extended his hand out to El Shehaby, as is the tradition in judo.
Shehaby, however, just continued walking backwards.
Once Sasson realized his opponent was not going to shake his hand, he put his hand up as if to say “Fine with me” and walked away.
El Shehaby continued to pace back and forth along the perimeter of the mat. His behavior was met with boos from the primarily Brazilian audience.
Certain Jewish publications were equally disgusted with the Egyptian.
SussexFriendsIsrael tweeted El Shehaby’s refusal to shake hands was “DISGRACEFUL.”
DISGRACEFUL!
Egyptian refuses to shake hand of Israeli Judoka Or Sasson after being defeated by him at #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/uCbG39V9oW— SussexFriendsIsrael (@SussexFriends) August 12, 2016
The Isreal project called it an example of more “shocking hate at the Rio Olympics.”
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Posted by The Israel Project on Friday, August 12, 2016
What do you think of El Shehaby’s behavior? How important is good sportsmanship before and after matches?
By his beard you can see that the egyptian is a salafist, so he is not a rational person.
He’s a frickin pig loving asshole who should be taken out back and shot.