Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A wasan karshe, abokin hamayyarsa shi ne Jafananci Shinichi Shinohara, zakaran duniya sau biyu a shekarar 1999. Ana ganin wannan wasan a matsayin ramuwar gayya ga gasar tseren Judo ta Duniya ta 1997
wasan karshe, inda Douillet ya doke dan wasan Japan mai nauyi. Rikici tsakanin judokas biyu ya kasance mai dabara sosai, kuma bayan minti daya da rabi ne kawai Ba'amurke ya jagoranci godiya ga yankan ciki na cinya ("uchi-subdued"). Hukuncin alkalin wasa ya ba da "yuko" ga Douillet, shawarar da Shinohara ya ƙalubalanci, wanda ya yi jayayya cewa ya kauce wa kuma ya yi adawa da Faransanci. Koyaya, ba a motsa babban alkalin wasa ba, kuma Shinohara bai sami damar rama wannan lokacin da aka rasa ba. Bayan minti biyar na gwagwarmaya, David Douillet ya sami damar lashe lambar zinare ta biyu ta Olympics. Wannan kuma nasara ce ga littattafan tarihin Judo kamar yadda ya zama mayaƙin da ke da mafi yawan taken duniya. Tare da manyan lakabi na kasa da kasa guda shida (2 taken wasannin Olympics, 4 taken duniya), ya wuce Jafananci Yasuhiro Yamashita (1 taken wasannin Olympics, 4 taken duniya) wanda ya lashe sunayensa a shekarun saba'in. Gasar wasannin Olympics a Sydney, duk da haka, ta nuna ƙarshen hanya ga judoka na Faransa, wanda nan da nan ya sanar da yin ritaya bayan gasar, ya lashe wasanni 88 kuma ya rasa 21.