Japan's Haruka Funakubo missed out on her first judo world championships gold medal Tuesday after losing by ippon to Japan-born Canadian Christa Deguchi in the women's 57-kilogram division final in Doha.Funakubo, who came second on her tournament debut last year in Tashkent, again settled for the runner-up spot after conceding a waza-ari to Deguchi's big inner reap before going down to a body drop from the 2019 champion."I didn't have the resolve to be the world champion," said the 24-year-old Funakubo, who leads the race for the Paris Olympics spot in the weight class for Japan. "I'm reall…READ FULL ARTICLE
