Olympic wrestling champion Icho given People's Honor Award

Wrestler Kaori Icho (L), who became the first female athlete to win four consecutive Olympic gold medals in an individual event in the Rio Summer Olympics, receives a kimono obi as a token of the People's Honor Award, from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the award ceremony at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2016. Icho is the 24th recipient of the award and the second wrestler to receive it after fellow Olympian Saori Yoshida in 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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