Satoya Tae ruckus in Roppongi?

[Mulboyne]

I wonder how this is going to play out? The comparisons with overseas athletes are interesting. Sport has become increasingly professional so denying an athlete the right to compete has to be for good reasons or else it can become a restraint of trade. There is an international body which offers arbitration when an athlete feels a national body is unfairly discriminating by not selecting them for competition.
In France, a rugby player came up positive for cocaine. There was no argument that he took it, and he apologized, but it transpired that the testers were not legally permitted to test him for that drug so he received no ban. The selectors were put under pressure to "make an example" but they decided they needed to consider everyone eligible for selection and he continued to play.
In the UK a few years ago, two international footballers were on trial for racially-motivated assault. Both were controversially found not guilty of the major charge while one was found guilty of the lesser charge of affray. Both were deemed elligible to represent their country - the first player immediately, the second after completing his sentence.
The Satoya case seems odd. When the reports first came out about her arrest, it seemed that we were getting news as the case moved to the prosecutors since the incident took place a month ago. If, as Marvin says, she was released without charge then she has committed no crime. So who is the source of the story? It can only be the 911 staff or else the police who, in any event, can only have got their story from 911 staff.
If Satoya herself confirmed their story then it seems likely she would have been charged. As this thread says, the geinojin have been falling foul of the law rather publicly of late and as this thread illustrates, the police do like confessions. In this case, the police may not have wanted to be in the position of holding Satoya to get her to confess to allegation made by FGs or else they decided that there was enough doubt about what had happened that no charges would stick. The idea that she assaulted police when they arrived seems unlikely since that would almost certainly have seen her held and charged.
So although Satoya has apologized for causing a scene, she doesn't seem to have done anything illegal and we only have a magazine account of her behaviour to go on. Her sponsors can drop her but that isn't a strong basis on which to deny her a place in the national team. She may decide that she was in the wrong and accept the punishment but many international athletes would appeal.

[Samurai_Jerk]

She sounds like a fun chick to hang out with. Anyone that nuts has got to be a great fuck too.

[Captain Japan]

She sounds like a fun chick to hang out with. Anyone that nuts has got to be a great fuck too.

Marvin just wrote up a detailed piece on the incident...
Satoya's sex fest snowballs into Tokyo nightclub nightmare
Mainichi

Kaikyaku, a Japanese term used to describe spreading the legs, is also the name given to a technique in moguls skiing.

Kaikyaku helped Tae Satoya pick up a gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, but spreading her legs for an entirely different purpose in a Roppongi nightclub last month has now got her in all sorts of trouble following an expose in Shukan Bunshun (3/10).

Roppongi is known for attracting large numbers of foreigners. On its main street is a club called 911, where loud club music booms out and swarms of men and women bump along to the beat. Things were a little different in the wee hours of Feb. 8, however.

"All of a sudden, about 10 uniformed cops poured into the club one after another and headed to the VIP room. There were about 50 customers in the joint, but a cop stood at the entrance to the VIP room and wouldn't let anybody in. People were gathered around trying to find out what had happened. The first person they escorted out of the VIP room was a young white guy. After a while, a cop came out carrying this young woman over his shoulder like a lump of wood. She was absolutely blotto. This woman dangling off the cop was Olympic gold medallist Tae Satoya," a woman at 911 at the time tells Shukan Bunshun....more...

[Video-Link Japan]

Marvin just wrote up a detailed piece on the incident...
Satoya's sex fest snowballs into Tokyo nightclub nightmare

It wasn't me (really), those damn good looking canucks are everywhere

"I was sitting down with a girlfriend on a sofa to the left of the club entrance when he came over to us, said he was a Canadian who liked Japanese women and plonked himself down in between us," the woman tells Shukan Bunshun. <snip> "He was a looker with blond, spiky hair.."

[Mulboyne]

"At a ceremony at the Nagano Olympics, she was given a bottle of champagne that she was supposed to shake up and spray around, but drank the whole magnum instead. This became a minor scandal and caused the cancellation of a party with journalists that was supposed to be held the following day."

Iki! Iki!

[dimwit]

Yeah but a total pinhead as a coach: take your meal ticket out to a bar allow her to get completely out of control while you're trying to get laid -doesn't strike me as very professional.

An employee from 911 said that somebody claiming to be "an associate of Satoya's" had called the club, taken complete responsibility for the incident and offered to pay compensation for any damage, as well as the medical costs of the bouncer injured when dealing with the berserk gold medallist

Any guess as to who the associate of Satoya was?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Man, she sounds better and better. I ABSOLUTELY want to meet her sometime.

[AssKissinger]

Man, she sounds better and better. I ABSOLUTELY want to meet her sometime.

Fuckin' A! I didn't realize how cool she was until now. What a bunch of dicks those bouncers are! What's wrong if two consenting adults wanna bump uglies? If people don't like it they can look the other way! I'd be looking at the bouncin' ski booty myself. I guess that's why she's such a good skier, wild abandonment. This also confirms my suspicions that skiing is still cooler than snowboarding.

Satoya, you go girl! If you read this just know AK loves you baby!

[AssKissinger]

Did yall know that this corporate cock, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, has had it in for sweet Tae and has been pulling a bunch of corporate cocksucker BULLSHIT to frame her up and fuck with her job over at Fuji TV

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11008

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8898

You can also read about what a cunt he is in 'You Gotta Have Wa'. He's just upset cause he couldn't get any of that sweet ski pussy. Spoiled assfuck wants to destroy this wonderful Olympian gold medal heroine just because she wouldn't let his swarmy ass taste the pie. Asshole.

[Mulboyne]

Imported from TokyoDV to keep things up-to-date

MDN: Satoya club sex claims are false, says Canadian friend
Stories of Tae Satoya engaging in wanton sex and violence in a Tokyo nightclub are "totally incorrect," the man at the center of the allegations being flung at the dual Olympic medallist told the Mainichi Daily News on Wednesday. Speaking strictly on condition of anonymity, the Canadian man strongly denied media reports saying he and the 28-year-old 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games moguls gold medallist had been having sex in the VIP room at Club 911 in Tokyo's Roppongi entertainment district on Feb. 8. "No, it is not true," the man said during a 24-minute phone interview he gave from overseas. "Totally incorrect."...more...

[Marvin Feltcher]

Have to edit.

[AssKissinger]

the ski association is standing behind her.

I'll stand behind her. Right behind her, if you know what I mean.

[Marvin Feltcher]

Have to edit.

[AssKissinger]

I'll stand behind her. Right behind her, if you know what I mean.

As long as standing is all you're doing, I'm sure she wouldn't mind in the least.

I might want to gyrate a little.

[Marvin Feltcher]

Have to edit.

[Mulboyne]

MDN: Moguls skier Satoya to make comeback Down Under
Tae Satoya, the freestyle moguls skier who caused a stir over her involvement in a drunken spat at a Tokyo establishment in February, is to participate in a race in Australia approved by the International Ski Federation, it has been learned. Tatsuo Hayashi, head of the freestyle section of the Ski Association of Japan said he had talked with Satoya about her plans for this season on Monday, and decided to allow her to participate in a race in Australia in August and train alone under the same coach she had last year. "All I can do is (do my best to) provide results for fans and the people involved," she was quoted as telling association officials. Fuji Television, which sponsors Satoya, 29, temporarily suspended her after news of the drunken spat broke.

[Taro Toporific]

Tae Satoya referred to prosecutors over alleged drunken brawlMainichi, Aug 16, 2005
Police have sent documents to prosecutors accusing Nagano Winter Olympic gold medalist Tae Satoya and a foreign restaurant worker of assault, it has been learned.
Investigators accuse Satoya and the restaurant worker of getting into a fight at a restaurant in Tokyo's Roppongi district in the predawn hours of Feb. 8. Satoya allegedly hit and kicked the worker, while the worker is accused of hitting her. Neither party suffered injuries in the incident.
Police said trouble appeared to have erupted when Satoya was warned over her attitude. She was reportedly drunk at the time...more...

[Big Booger]

What is the law regarding self-defense here? I mean if someone hits you, what are you legally supposed to do in Japan?

[Taro Toporific]

What is the law regarding self-defense here? I mean if someone hits you, what are you legally supposed to do in Japan?

Nothing.
Really. Japanese law doesn't not have self defense as a "right," only an mitigating option.

[Big Booger]

What is the law regarding self-defense here? I mean if someone hits you, what are you legally supposed to do in Japan?

Nothing.
Really. Japanese law doesn't not have self defense as a "right," only an mitigating option.

Just to clarify, if I attempt to defend myself, I can be charged with assault?

[Mini_B]

She's HOT!

[American Oyaji]

This sounds really dodgy.

Now that she decides to make a comback they decide to charge her?

She should defect to Canada.

[GuyJean]

Have to edit.

WOT?!

Your new boss crackin' the whip?

GJ

[cstaylor]

Probably doesn't want to end up called to testify. We'll have to start calling Marvin "Judith".

[Taro Toporific]

[Mulboyne]

[homesweethome]

Mulboyne you are amazing.
If you only knew how many officials were paid off to cover that one up, I only know from 'local' sources that the story is very interesting.

[American Oyaji]

Ok, NOW what are you guys talking about?

Spill it or send me a PM please.

And what does that kanji mean?

[Greji]

Ok, NOW what are you guys talking about?

Spill it or send me a PM please.

And what does that kanji mean?

I have no idea, but the kanji is hanzai for crime or offense

[Socratesabroad]

And what does that kanji mean?

-Enter 'crime' and 'photo' as search terms on Google Images and...

Ok, NOW what are you guys talking about?

Spill it or send me a PM please.

I agree - spill the beans, guys.