An old clip of a judo match has been shared thousands of times in social media posts that falsely claim it shows a South Korean athlete biting her Japanese opponent at the 2023 Asian Games in China. The incident in fact took place at the 2013 Judo Grand Slam in Tokyo. Neither of the wrestlers seen in the video competed in the Asian Games, which closed on October 8 in Hangzhou.

"South Korean athlete bites Japanese athlete!" reads a Chinese-language caption with a post on short-video-sharing app Douyin from September 27, 2023.

The caption includes the hashtag "Hangzhou Asian Games", which were held in the eastern Chinese city in September and October this year (archived link).

The accompanying clip shows two judo wrestlers tussling, with one subsequently sinking her teeth into the other's hand. Text overlaid on the video and a voiceover in Mandarin say the Korean competitor bit her Japanese rival.

A screenshot, taken on October 9, 2023, of the false Douyin post

Hosts China dominated the Asian Games with 201 gold medals, while Japan finished second on 52 and Korea came in third with 42.

The same judo clip has been shared elsewhere alongside similar false claims on Weibo, Douyin and YouTube.

However, the biting in fact took place during the semi-finals of the Judo Grand Slam in Tokyo in November 2013.

Combined reverse image and keyword searches on Google found the clip corresponds to longer footage of the match uploaded to YouTube by Japanese television station TV Tokyo on...

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