New Zealand judoka Qona Christie has fallen to a narrow defeat in the quarter-finals of the women's 57kg at the Commonwealth Games.
The 23-year-old started strongly against her more experienced opponent Christianne Legentil, throwing the Mauritian to the floor in the opening seconds.
However, the move failed to score a point and Legentil, a two-time Olympian, scored a waza-ari point almost immediately afterwards.
That would prove to be the decisive moment, and remained the only point of the fight despite a strong finish by Christie that nearly saw her successfully throw Legentil for a match-winning ippon.
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