Countdown to 2016 – December 7th – Yasuhiro Yamashita
Despite tearing his calf muscle, Yasuhiro Yamashita went on to win gold for Japan in the open category of the Judo event at Los Angeles 1984.
Each day of December we will reveal an iconic moment from Olympic history as we countdown to the Olympic year.
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