Two-time Olympic judo champion Saito dies at age 54

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken April 1985 shows Hitoshi Saito (R) competing with Yasuhiro Yamashita during the All-Japan judo championship in Tokyo. Saito, a two-time Olympic judo champion and head of the All Japan Judo Federation's committee for enhancement, died of intrahepatic bile duct cancer in Osaka on Jan. 20, 2015.

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Two-time Olympic judo champion Saito dies at age 54

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken April 1985 shows Hitoshi Saito (R) competing with Yasuhiro Yamashita during the All-Japan judo championship in Tokyo. Saito, a two-time Olympic judo champion and head of the All Japan Judo Federation's committee for enhancement, died of intrahepatic bile duct cancer in Osaka on Jan. 20, 2015. (Kyodo)

Two-time Olympic judo champion Saito dies at age 54

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Saito, a two-time Olympic judo champion and head of the All Japan Judo Federation's committee for enhancement, holds the gold medal in the men's over 95-kilogram category at the Seoul Olympic Games in this file photo taken in October, 1988. Saito died of intrahepatic bile duct cancer on Jan. 20, 2015, in Osaka. He was 54.

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