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'''Rene Capo''' (May 9, 1961 – July 6, 2009) was a [[judoka]] from the United States who competed in the [[1988 Summer Olympics]] and the [[1996 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="USA Today">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2009-07-07-2152177637_x.htm|title=Judo Olympian Capo dies at 48|last=Associated Press|author-link=Associated Press|date=7 July 2009|work=[[USA Today]]|publisher=[[Gannett Company]]|accessdate=8 July 2009}}</ref> Capo immigrated to the United States from [[Cuba]] as a young boy. Though he won several judo championships in high school, Capo took a four-year break from the sport to attend the [[University of Minnesota]]. After college, Capo went on to qualify for two United States Olympics teams, could not compete as an alternate in another due to a back injury, and narrowly missed making the 2008 team. In 2008, Capo was diagnosed with lung cancer, which caused his death the following year.
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===Professional career===
After a four-year break from Judo in which he focused on [[American football|football]] and college, Capo won a gold medal at the 1987 [[Pacific Rim Championships (judo)|Pacific Rim Championships]]. A year later, he upset a number of highly ranked heavyweights at the US Judo Olympic Trials.<ref name="Miami Herald"/> At the 1988 Summer Olympics in [[Seoul]], Capo finished 19th.<ref name="Miami Herald"/> Capo qualified as the alternate for the [[1992 Summer Olympics]], but was unable to compete due to severe neck injury. After having surgery on two vertebrae, he made it to the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated the first day. From 2005 to 2007, Capo taught [[judo]] at the [[Jason Morris (judo)|Jason Morris]] Judo Center in [[Glenville, Schenectady County, New York|Glenville]].<ref name="Albany Times Union">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=817743&category=SPORTS|title=Judo Olympian Capo dies|last=Singelais|first=Mark|date=8 July 2009|work=[[Times Union (Albany)|Times Union]]|publisher=[[Hearst Corporation]]|accessdate=9 July 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> He narrowly missed qualifying for the [[2008 Summer Olympics]],<ref name="Miami Herald"/> losing to his own student, [[Kyle Vashkulat]].<ref name="Albany Times Union"/> At the 2008
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