Hot! Kayla Harrison

Kayla Harrison

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When Kayla Harrison took towards honor take a position Thursday, all smiles using a precious metal medal covered all around her neck, she seemed to be the impression from the all-American Olympic champion, whose tears have been happy ones.

But long prior to judo champ bested Britain's Gemma Gibbons in the ladies 78-kilogram dividing in the 2012 Summer Olympics , before your woman picked up the initial precious metal medal with judo pertaining to Team USA, Harrison, 22, fought a darker, distressing past.

In 2007, the woman ex - judo coach pleaded guilty in the government court docket inside Dayton, Ohio, for you to illicit sexual carryout while your woman has been 13, reports . In court docket papers, the yellow metal medalist will be referenced as "K.H." or maybe "the victim."

Harrison has considering been honest about the maltreatment your woman endured which took place on vacations about the world until she seemed to be 16 before she exposed facts the woman discipline on the man would you come to be her fianc .

When a new reporter inquired her for you to identify this worst minute she's experienced inside her career, Harrison, in whose previous coach, Daniel Doyle, includes considering also been sentenced to ten years throughout prison, said, "It's no secret which I was sexually mistreated by my ex - coach. And that was unquestionably the actual most dilligently thing I've ever had to overcome."

In this events prior to rivalry Thursday, prior to yellow metal medal, your ex existing coach, Jimmy Pedro bought the woman your pep talk.

"Today, Kayla Harrison, nobody is going to defeat you," he said. "Today, everyone could make history. Today, Kayla Harrison is an Olympic champion."

And since your lady is actually indeed an Olympic champion with a yellow metal honor to help her identify Harrison will be allowing credit ratings to some particular unique accessory.

Complimenting your ex starting ceremony outfit, which usually she opted in order to dress yourself in over the USA match she used to help less-successful matches: the woman blessed socks.

"I'm big about ritual as well as I'm big with patterns, and I acquire comfortable," Harrison told CBS News . "And as soon as I get comfortable, I have confident. And while I obtain confident, I win."