Kayla Harrison cherishes each gold for realise her dreams

Kayla Harrison of the United States of America added another 300 points by winning the gold medal at the Budapest Grand Prix. The Olympic champion won her seventh Grand Prix title as world bronze medallist Ana Velensek took silver, she also beat Velensek for the seventh time. The American countered for a waza-ari to open the scoring and never looked back as she pressed and pressed and the scoreboard was inundated. Kayla registered five scores in a total, the fifth was ippon, with a beautiful o-goshi just before the time ran out.

The chamion of Budapest said: "This is good because everything counts 100% towards to the Olympic and right now I'm number one in the World so this put me a little bit more ahead of everyone else, which of course makes me happy. My goal, for this year and for last four years is to be the best in division and the best in the world. I'm able to be number one, I wanna be like Teddy Riner, Decosse, Tani, Tanimoto...

Again the national anthem was for Harrison and always she is touched by it. "Yes! For me it's very big point of pride to represent USA and when I hear the anthem always remember London, start to visualize Rio Olympics, and everytime I hear the anthem here I Rio, here I come, and it feels good!" My movie  is currently on hold, it is very hard to find funding in Hollywood. So I train and when they say we go, I'll go."

“I’m pleased, it was a tough day for me, the Japanese fighter gave me problems and I can have problems sometimes with left-handed fighters. It’s important for me to keep being the dominant fighter in this category and it’s all about Rio 2016 for me.” About beating Velensek again: Iit's hard for her as she is picking on Europeans, I always enjoy fight with her, our styles match for me but not for her, that's judo! For me I struggle with left sided and for her I think she struggle with right side."

In the first semi-final contest Harrison swept past Dutch Marhinde Verkerk to guarantee a place on the podium. The American went ahead with a waza-ari and engineered a hold-down to wrap up the victory as Verkerk gave up by submitting. In the second semi-final World Masters bronze medallist Luise Malzahn of Germany lost out to the hard-working Velensek who won in ne-waza to seal a tilt at the Olympic champion and Budapest title.

The first bronze medal was claimed by Malzahn who defeated 20-year-old Asian Championships winner Umeki Mami (JPN) with a koshi-waza technique for ippon. The second bronze medal contest was won by Verkerk against Astana Grand Prix bronze medallist Assunta Galeone (ITA). Galeone trailed to a yuko and Verkerk had been penalised with a shido for passivity but maintained her advantage for the remainder of the contest.

The gold was again for Kayla Harrison who is now leading the World Ranking U78kg. She's a woman with a plan: "I'm writing a book with one good author from Boston, I want book to be helpful for people who had history like me, I didn't have easy road to come here where I'm. I've started a foundation to pursuit that more and hopefully to change people's life like the Pedro changed mine. They gave me chance to succeed and I will be always grateful to them for that. So I wanna do that, I wanna pass it forward!"