Tae Satoya
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2002 Salt Lake City | Moguls |
Tae Satoya (里谷 多英, Satoya Tae, born on June 12, 1976, in Sapporo, Japan) is a Japanese freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and she finished third at the 2002 games.
Olympic career
[edit]Satoya became the first Japanese woman to earn a gold medal in the Winter Olympics after winning a gold medal in the Moguls event at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
Satoya went on to win a further Bronze medal at the Moguls event in 2002 at Salt Lake City.
She also competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics where she finished in 15th place,[1] and finally in the 2010 Olympics where, reportedly suffering from back problems she finished 19th after falling on her last jump.[2]
Scandal
[edit]Satoya was banned by the Ski Association of Japan from participating in the 2005 Freestyle World Ski Championships in Finland following a scandal resulting from an arrest at a Roppongi nightclub[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Mark D. West (2007). Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States, page 218. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-89408-9
- ^ Uemura won't hold back in bid for moguls medal, The Japan Times, japantimes.co.jp. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
External links
[edit]- Official website Archived 2010-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
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