Japanese athlete set to be sent home from Paris Olympics over breach

A Japanese Olympic medal hopeful is set to be sent packing from the Paris Games after reportedly breaching her team’s code of conduct.

Japanese medal hope Shoko Miyata is reportedly set to be axed from the Paris Olympics.

The 19-year-old is captain of her country’s artistic gymnastics team.

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But Miyata has allegedly fallen foul of her squad’s code of conduct after breaching the rules after being found to have smoked.

Japanese outlet Kyodo News claim the Japan Gymnastics Association is investigating and is set to send her home.

Miyata was not seen at a recent open training session.

JGA head of development Hikaru Tanaka said she was absent “for certain reasons.”

Miyata won bronze in the balance beam at the world championships in 2022.

Her absence will be a huge blow to Japan, who were hoping to earn a first team gymnastics medal since the 1964 Games on home soil in Tokyo.

Shoko Miyata looks set to be sent packing. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

The news of Miyata being sent home from Paris comes after an Australian hockey player amputated part of his finger in an extreme show of dedication to the Olympics.

Matthew Dawson is all set to represent the Australian men’s hockey team — the Kookaburras — at the Paris 2024 Olympics after he opted to amputate part of his right ring finger.

Dawson’s Olympic participation was plunged into doubt after he broke the finger, leading him to opt for an amputation rather than a cast.

“I made an informed decision with the plastic surgeon at the time not only for the opportunity to play in Paris but for life after as well,” Dawson told 7NEWS.

“The best option was for me to take the top of my finger off. It’s a bit of a change at the moment and an exciting challenge, I guess.”

Dawson is dedicated to the Olympic cause. Picture: Nine

Dawson amputated his finger. Picture: Nine

The 30-year-old reportedly didn’t have much time to make the big decision.

“I had made the decision and then I called my wife, and she said, ‘I don’t want you to make a rash decision’, but I had all the information I needed to make the decision not for Paris but for life after,” he said.

“Hopefully, I can not take too long to get back to form.”

He added he’s “very fortunate” he only needed to amputate “just a little bit of (his) finger”.

“There are plenty of other issues and other people going on with other stuff in their lives that are bigger than losing a finger, so I’m very fortunate that it’s just a little bit of my finger,” he said.

The Australian hockey team are all set to face Rio 2016 champions Argentina next week in their first match of the Paris Olympics on July 27.