Japan’s ‘Uncle Olympics’ mega fan dies just short of 2020 Games
Naotoshi Yamada at the Rio de Janeiro Games in August 18, 2016. Yamada attended all the summer Games since the 1964 Tokyo event. – AFP pic, March 18, 2019.
A JAPANESE Olympic mega fan who attended every summer games since Tokyo in 1964 has died, just over a year before his home city was to host its second Olympics. Tokyo businessman Naotoshi Yamada, 92, who died on March 9 from heart failure, was a national celebrity in his own right with his repeated, gleeful appearances in Olympic stands.
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