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The gruff, plain talking Kanokogi who has received praise and recognition from the government of Japan, the International Judo Federation and International Women’s Hall of Fame, was denied the prize at a YMCA tournament for being a woman.
“This should never, never happen to a woman again in sports,” Kanokogi said about the rage she felt back in 1959.
The 74-year-old was speaking in an interview with Reuters on the eve of last week’s medal ceremony that rectified the wrong half a century later.
“It was a negative for a while but I turned it around into a positive. I started the manoeuvring for the recognition of women’s judo and other sports. Basically it was encouragement.
“If the medal had not been taken away from me, who knows? Women’s judo could still be waiting to get into the Olympics.”
The gender-equality fighter who is now battling a rare form of cancer was born Rena Glickman and grew up tough on the streets of Brooklyn’s Coney Island when girls were not allowed to play most school sports.
BOYS ONLY
“I was a strong girl, very physically active with no sports in school because that was for boys only,” she said.
“So I took pleasure in hitting the heavy bag (punch bag) after school. I had a chip on my shoulder so I started using people in the street as a heavy bag.
“I was getting in trouble. Here I had the physical ability of a strong male with the mentality of a teenage girl. I was kind of lost. I was a lost soul with no place to go.”
Kanokogi found herself in judo, intrigued after a friend showed her some moves.
She threw herself into the sport and practised with the young men at the local YMCA when asked by the coach to fill in for an injured boy in a competition at upstate Utica, New York.
Told to try and earn a draw in her match to help the team, the 24-year-old produced a surprise.
“Instinctively, once I took hold of my opponent’s judo gee (uniform top) I just went in for the big attack and I threw him,” she recalled. “It worked. I got a full point.”
Kanokogi said that although it was not in the rules that competitors had to be male, she disguised herself anyway. “I wasn’t told to take the ace (stretch) bandage and bind up my boobs,” she said. “I did that on my own.”
However, the tournament director confronted her afterwards, insisting girls could not compete and saying she would have to give her medal back or her team would be disqualified.
“I took the medal off and handed it to him,” she said. “All of the guys wanted to give the medals back and the trophy and I refused to let them do that. We had a solemn ride back to the city.”
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Yesterday I was having internet issues. Same as the day before. Day before was our server/firewall/everything box hanging. But this was looking like problems with the wifi. Anyway, I disabled the wifi for a while, and shut down Mail.app and kept working.