The French Priscilla Gneto fell in the semifinals of -57 kilos of the Grand Slam of Paris due to something unusual, but that already happened at the 2019 Judo World Cup in Baku to Henry Egutidze, a Portuguese judoka.
Gneto was facing the Japanese Momo Tamaoki when, suddenly, it was seen in the broadcast how the mobile phone came off the kimono. the asian, who was on the ground at the time, he was able to grab it and showed it to the referee.
At that point the match was stopped, the referee handed it back to her, and he had no choice but to disqualify her. The French assumed the error and the consequent defeat.
gneto finished the tournament in third position after beating Mongolian judoka Enkhrillen Lkhagvatogoo.