
Japanese wrestler celebrates gold medal by body-slamming her coach


After a dominating victory over Belarus' Maryia Mamashuk in the women's 63-kg freestyle final on Thursday, Japan's Risako Kawai rejoiced by sending her coach to the mat.
“Before the final, the coach [Kazuhito Sakae] said he wanted me to lift him on his shoulders,” Kawai said. “The three wrestlers the previous day all won gold so they got to do that, and I said I wanted to be first to slam him and he let me do it.”
The overjoyed 21-year-old actually threw Sakae twice. Check it out:
Goals for gold medal celebrations at Tokyo 2020 games:
Risako Kawai wins gold in the 63kg freestyle, celebrates by body slamming her coach...twice. https://t.co/3nZ10QtWAW https://t.co/nySNtpGPvT
— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) August 19, 2016
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