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Japan judo star jailed for rape

A double Olympic judo gold medallist was jailed in Japan for raping a student, capping a terrible week for the sport after claims a national coach beat athletes with a bamboo sword.

Masato Uchishiba won gold at the Beijing Olympics on August 10, 2008. The double Olympic judo gold medallist was jailed in Japan on Friday for raping a student, capping a terrible week for the sport after claims a national coach beat athletes with a bamboo sword.

Masato Uchishiba was sentenced to five years in prison for the assault on a teenage member of a college judo club he was coaching, a court official said, after she drunkenly fell asleep in a Tokyo hotel.

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