JOC President Yasuhiro Yamashita to receive Olympic Order from IOC
GENEVA (Kyodo) -- Japanese Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita will receive the Olympic Order from the International Olympic Committee, multiple sources said Saturday.
The decision was approved during an IOC board meeting this month with the 68-year-old Yamashita, who won the judo open category gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, to be honored for his contribution to the Olympic movement.
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and then Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga each received the Olympic Order in 2021 after helping stage the Tokyo Games amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yamashita suffered a cervical vertebrae injury in October 2023 during his third term as the JOC president and has been away from his duties since.
He is set to step down from both his JOC post and as an IOC member later this month.
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