The draw olympics.olympic_medal_honor conducted on 4 January 2009 in Issy-les-Moulineaux , Paris at the headquarters of Eurosport by Chloé Mortaud , the recently crowned Miss France and 2008 Summer Olympics bronze medalist Teddy Riner .

He continued his success by winning a gold medal at the 1979 World Judo Championships , and secured a spot on the Japanese Olympic team in a highly publicized draw olympics.olympic_medal_honor 1976 Summer Olympics bronze medalist Sumio Endo .

The end of July saw Smith qualify for the main singles draw olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1992 Summer Olympics , where he was defeated in the first round by Russia 's Andrei Cherkasov .