{"id":42441,"date":"2012-08-06T11:15:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T09:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42441"},"modified":"2012-08-06T11:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T09:27:31","slug":"konami-employee-wins-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42441-konami-employee-wins-olympic-gold","title":{"rendered":"Konami employee wins Olympic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>While many might think that the realms of video games and professional athletics are worlds apart, a Konami employee has won at a gold medal at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so the employee is not necessarily involved with the video game division, and instead works in Konami\u2019s Sport and Fitness department, which is still pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Kohei Uchimura represented Japan in the gymnastics team, and made his way to first place on the podium after an impressive performance.<\/p>\n<p>Kohei was one of four Konami employees who competed in the Olympics, as he was joined by Koji Yamamuro, and Yusuke Tanaka in gymnastics, and Takuro Fujii in swimming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKonami Sports &amp; Life Co., Ltd. would like to congratulate Uchimura on this great accomplishment, and extend appreciation to his many supporters and fans,\u201d a blog post on the official website reads. \u201cKonami will continue to aid in the further development and popularization of sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Konami acquired People Co. in 2001, which then became Konami Sports &amp; Life Co. and acted as a subsidiary of the video game company.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Kohei tearing it up:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GOFlc9KOhqg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Congrats\u00a0Kohei, now tell your colleagues to go make MGS5!<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.konamisportsclub.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Konami Sports Club<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/42135-top-5-olympics-video-games.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Top 5 Olympics video games<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/41086-london-2012-the-official-video-game-of-the-olympic-games-review-ps3.html\">London 2012 \u2013 The Official video game of the Olympic Games review (PS3)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40687-conan-obrien-flaps-his-arms-around-in-michael-phelps-kinect-game.html\">Conan O\u2019Brien flaps his arms around in Michael Phelps Kinect game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/41041-10-gaming-facts-you-should-know.html\">10 gaming facts you should know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metal Gear Solid Gold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":42442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1788,6109,1269,6108,5998,5574],"class_list":["post-42441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-japan","tag-kohei-uchimura","tag-konami","tag-konami-sports-life-co","tag-olympics","tag-olympics-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42443,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42441\/revisions\/42443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}