The Gods of War series returns with a look at one of the greatest competition Judoka of all time.
Tadahiro Nomura was born December 10, 1974 to a Judo family in Koryo, Japan. Nomura's grandfather ran a local Judo school, his father had coached 1984 Olympic gold medalist Shinji Hosokawa, and his uncle Toyokazu Nomura won gold at the 1972 Olympics. Needless to say, Judo was apart of Tadahiro's Nomura's life from the very beginning, and it was something he embraced entirely. As early as age three Tadahiro was playing with friends on the tatami mats at his grandfather's school.