Amateur wrestling career Yoshiaki Yatsu
1 amateur wrestling career
1.1 1976 summer olympics
1.2 1980 summer olympics
1.3 controversial ioc banishment
amateur wrestling career
1976 summer olympics
at age of 20, yatsu competed in amateur wrestling @ 1976 summer olympics in montreal. did not place in tournament.
1980 summer olympics
he have participated in 1980 summer olympics in moscow, japan chose follow american-led boycott.
controversial ioc banishment
in 1986 yatsu took hiatus professional wrestling in order 1 last time chase olympic dream. however, after winning japanese national championship in super heavyweight division in 1986 , while training 1987 asian wrestling championships, international olympic committee declared yatsu professional athlete , banned him not competition, 1988 summer olympics. decision stunned many people, yatsu didn t file appeal.
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