Her father worked there in factories and when they came back to Brazil he opened a judo school.

[2] Before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the Brazilian Judo Federation was unsure who would represent Brazil in half-middleweight.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing she was eliminated in the first round by Korean Kong Ja-young.

It was an aggressive match where Yuri was leading by wazari but two minutes before the end she made a mistake and Kong won by ippon.

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