{"id":499766,"date":"2013-01-03T20:57:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T20:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/499766\/"},"modified":"2013-01-03T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T20:57:37","slug":"koga-1992-barcelona-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/499766\/","title":{"rendered":"Koga &#8211; 1992 Barcelona Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xjwon7Z4nBk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nKoga was the heavy favorite at the Barcelona Games but during randori practice with Olympic gold medalist Hidehiko Yoshida a few days before his contest, Koga seriously injured his knee. The medics injected him with cortisone (which was permitted under Olympic rules), allowing him to fight. He introduced a brand new technique, tomoe-nage, which no one had seen him use before. He also managed to use his trademark seoi-nage despite the bad knee. By the time the finals came around, the injury had taken its toll and he had to rely on judges&#8217; decision to win. He was immediately flown back to Japan for a knee operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koga was the heavy favorite at the Barcelona Games but during randori practice with Olympic gold medalist Hide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":499767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[45945,9388,67,68,109466,43994],"class_list":{"0":"post-499766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-45945","9":"tag-final","10":"tag-japan","11":"tag-japan-news","12":"tag-koga","13":"tag-43994"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}