Fujiko meets Yawara on her morning training and is overjoyed she’s coming back to judo, and they train hard together in the cold. Kojiro spies on them and realizes the “genius is serious”. Matsuda is angered by his editor saying that so long as the news of a Yawara comeback sells the news, he doesn’t care if Yawara loses and doesn’t actually make it to Barcelona. Kojiro orders a media lockout and decides to “re-train” Sayaka, first with sand bags of increasing size. She is shown lifting them with her feet on her back.
ジョギング中に転んだ富士子の前に柔が現れた。父・虎滋郎と対峙する決意で柔道への復帰を選んだようだ。だが大会での下馬評は勢いのあるさやかが有利であり、かつ彼女は虎滋郎のもとで極秘特訓に励んでいた。
