Shohei Ohno, who won the gold medal in the men’s 73kg judo class at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics (Photo: JMPA)
On December 14, it was reported that Shohei Ono, who won his second consecutive Olympic gold medal in the men’s 73 kg judo class, may retire from the front line and become a coach.
According to the report of “Sports Hochi”, he is preparing to apply for the sports instruction training project implemented by the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) with a view to moving on to the path of a coach, and hopes to study in the UK. It is said that there is
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“Mr. Ohno came to Tokyo in junior high school and spent six years at Kodo Gakusha, a judo private school that has produced many Olympic medalists. He won the championship for the first time and won the championship in 2015. He won the gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016, and at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, he achieved the seventh consecutive victory in the history of Japanese judo.
However, recently there has been a conspicuous absence from the competition. Since the Tokyo Olympics, the only actual competition has been the All Japan Championships, which was held in April without weight discrimination. The international tournament in June is absent due to “poor condition”.
He also missed the Grand Slam Tokyo tournament held at the beginning of December, saying, “I have been preparing as hard as I can to participate in the tournament in order to meet the expectations, but I have to prepare my mind and body to compete as a representative of Japan by the tournament. I couldn’t raise it. As for the future, I would like to face myself and make a decision.” (Sports writer)
Right after the Rio Olympics, Ohno was showing a young, “yummy” face. In October 2016, this magazine witnessed Ohno having a “triumphant return party” with the representative athletes who fought together at the Rio Olympics at an izakaya in Akabane. Beautiful women in their 20s also participated, and it was said that the atmosphere was like a joint party. At the second party karaoke, he escaped from the bar with an older woman who seemed to be in her late twenties, and disappeared into the love hotel district of Ikebukuro.
However, it seems that there were many conflicts after that. In an interview with the winner after the Tokyo Olympics, Ohno said, “I started judo because I liked it when I was a child, but after Rio, I hated it, and every day I asked myself why I practiced. This tournament is also here. I was able to fight to prove, to find out, ‘Who am I?
Ohno has long been respected around the world as an “absolute champion”. From now on, I want you to play a role in passing on the “soul” of that king to the next generation.
( SmartFLASH
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