Judo: Clinical Japan bags world double

Hosts Japan snatched double gold at the world judo championships Monday as Joshiro Maruyama and Uta Abe powered to victory to fire a warning ahead of next year's Tokyo Olympics.

While Abe was denied a hat-trick of world titles, his younger sister Uta -- the poster girl of Japanese judo -- retained her crown in the women's 52-kilo class by dispatching Russian Natalia Kuziutina in just 28 seconds. A question mark remains over how Japan's judoka will cope with the suffocating pressure of competing at home but many of those fears were dispelled by the swagger shown by Abe and Maruyama.

"I've struggled more than most fighters, so this is a big win for me. But the goal is to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics so I've got to pick myself up and go again."

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