Japan judo coach 'beat top female athletes'
---Coach Sonoda said he had been doing things "as he saw fit"---
BBC | 30 January 2013
Japan's top female judo wrestlers were subjected to violence by their coach, officials have admitted.
The acknowledgement followed a complaint by 15 athletes to the Japanese Olympic Committee in December. In the complaint, the group said that they had been slapped and hit with wooden swords by their head coach...Ryuji Sonoda had acknowledged the claims....more...