RIO DE JANEIRO ¨C When Yuko Fujii took a job coaching judo in England after graduating from university, she didn¡¯t anticipate that she would one day be coaching the sport at an Olympics in her home country.
Fujii is now the head coach for the Brazilian men¡¯s national judo team. That means in just over one year she will bring the country¡¯s top competitors to her homeland with the aim of winning Olympic glory.
Judo is a sport that was born in Japan, but is now practiced worldwide. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, 26 different countries won medals.
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