He admitted gambling in an illegal casino with a fellow player in April 2016, and was kicked off Japan's Olympic team and banned from competition indefinitely.
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It was the latest unhappy chapter in his Olympic career, following a dramatic fall from grace just months before the 2016 Rio Games. "Previously, when a match went like this, I would be able to recover and think clearly," said a visibly stunned Momota. Momota admitted his killer instinct had deserted him and blamed his own "weakness" for the shock exit. Momota made a full recovery and headed into the Tokyo Games on home soil in July this year as the favourite to win gold.īut his Olympic dream turned into a nightmare when he was eliminated in the group stage. How long will it take?" he said in March last year, when asked if he was worried he might never play again. He suffered double vision and needed surgery on a bone near his eye that delayed his comeback, leaving him fearing his career was over.
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Momota said that his "spirit was almost broken" as he tried to recover from the accident - hours after he won the Malaysia Masters - which killed the driver of the vehicle taking him to Kuala Lumpur airport. It was typical of the rollercoaster journey that the 27-year-old has been on since he was almost forced to retire after fracturing his eye socket in the car crash. The world number one won the Indonesia Masters earlier this month - his first international title since being badly injured in the January 2020 accident - but then endured a shock defeat in the last 16 at last week's Indonesia Open.
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Kento Momota suffered a career-threatening car crash and then flopped at the Tokyo Olympics, but the Japanese badminton star can end a turbulent two years on a high at this week's BWF World Tour Finals.