French judoka Teddy Riner suffered his first defeat since 2010, ending his win streak at 154 matches.
Japanese Kokoro Kageura beat Riner in the third round of the Paris Grand Slam on Sunday.
“If this happens at the [Tokyo Olympic] Games I’ll be annoyed. Better this happens now than then,” Riner said, according to Agence France-Presse. “But I’ll tell you another thing too. It’s a relief in a way. Counting wins as I closed in on [Yasuhiro] Yamashita‘s record [203 straight in the 1970s and ’80s] was really heavy.