With just a week to go until the start of the Paris Games, the leader of Japan’s Olympic women’s gymnastics team has been forced to pull out after she admitted to underage drinking and smoking.

Japanese gymnast Akinori Nakayama, who won six Olympic gold medals and gave his name to a ring manoeuvre still performed by top competitors, has died aged 82, officials said.

Japan's six-time Olympic champion Akinori Nakayama has died at the age of 82, the Japan Gymnastics Association ... Nakayama helped Japan win men's all-around team gold and also took the individual ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese men's gymnastics great Akinori Nakayama ... Four years later, at the Munich Olympics, he won another team all-around and rings gold, while repeating as floor ...

will take one last shot at an Olympic berth at December's final qualifying tournament. One Japanese team will go to the final qualifying event in Canada after Sapporo-based Fortius was unable to ...

Nakayama helped Japan win men's all-around team gold ... total from the two Olympics. Nakayama also gave his name to a rings manoeuvre still performed by the world's top gymnasts.