Mulboyne wrote: The 21-year-old will miss the 2012 London Olympics because the tradition-bound Japanese judo authority bans grapplers from turning professional.
Does this mean Vladimir Putin has to drop out too?
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24463692-912,00.html
[yt]IdXwu2MXR_s[/yt]Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's judo DVD
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A black belt, Mr Putin, 55, said yesterday he had made an instructional video with world and Olympic judo champion Yasuhiro Yamashita.
"He and I have recorded a video disc as a video supplement to a judo manual," Mr Putin said.