A great start to the season can change everything. Cissé Cheick Salah Junior will not say otherwise. The Ivorian won in three different competitions at the beginning of the season, became number 1 in the world in the Olympic ranking of +80 kg in taekwondo.
He totaled 345.89 points and is ahead of Mexico's Carlos Sensores (340 points) and Brazil's Laicon Siqueira (249 points). On Sunday, March 5, the Ivorian star won his third gold medal at the Bulgaria Open in three months. Before that, he had been crowned in Turkey and Egypt, at the President Cup, earlier in the season.
Performances that have currently placed him at the top. Now number one in the world, he becomes the main chance of Olympic medal at the next Olympics in Paris for the Ivory Coast.