Yukio Kasaya, Japan's first Winter Olympic gold medalist, dies at 80

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Yukio Kasaya, Japan's first Winter Olympic gold medalist, dies at 80

Yukio Kasaya, who made history by winning Asia's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal in 1972, died from heart disease on Tuesday morning at a hospital in Sapporo. He was 80 years old.