Japanese wrestler Isao Inokuma beats Canada's Douglas Rogers in the Judo Heavyweight final at the Tokyo Olympics, in 1964.The emperor leaned forward in his seat in the Royal Box at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, an expression of concern on his face. A man once considered a demigod who had ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne, who had witnessed the devastation of earthquakes and who had presided over a nation as it lost a world war, grasped the box railing, his mouth agape.
The Japanese judoka Isao Inokuma receiving an award alongside Canadian colleague Douglas Rogers in 1964, alongside Soviet colleagues Parnaoz Chikviladze and Anzor Kiknadze, after Inokuma won the competition for maximum weights at the Tokyo Olympics.Alfred Harold Douglas Rogers was born in Truro, N.S., on Jan. 26, 1941. He was the only son of three children born to the former Anna Mae Hazlett Jollymore and Rev. Alfred Allison Rogers, a United Church minister. Rev.
“They took pity on me,” he later told his daughter as part of her master’s thesis, “and a couple of the girls would come over and sit down and try to cheer me up. Later on, one of the girls and her boyfriend took me to see a baseball game.” In 1965, at his peak, the Canadian won two gold medals at the Pan-American judo championships, a bronze at the world judo championships, and helped his school win the All-Japan title.
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