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.