Mayor Grossman

Japanese Olympian Miu Goto (r), from the softball champs, is in line to get a new gold medal  - one without any tooth marks.

Now that's a sentence you don't see every day, but then again, Takashi Kawamura, the Mayor of Nagoya, isn't the kind of public official you see every day. 

Kawamura BIT her first gold medal. Social media folks are calling that "unhygienic" and "impolite" and whatever the Japanese word for "yucky" is.

The mayor was at an event celebrating the hometown hero, Ms Goto, and for reasons best known to hizzoner, he pulled off his mask and sank his incisors and bicuspids into the precious prize.

AND  the mayor must have been paying attention to certain American politicians, because not only did he slobber all over someone's medal, he made inappropriate sexual remarks to the softball champ (pro tip: there are no appropriate ones).

"Are you prohibited from having romantic relationships?" he said to Ms Goto.

In the time-honored tradition of politicos everywhere, the mayor soon admitted that he was being inappropriate, and had made an "error in judgement."

"I deeply regret making her uncomfortable with remarks that went too far," he said. "When I ask a young person if they have a boyfriend or girlfriend, it allows them to relax and speak more. As a mayor, it's important to put people one is talking to at ease."

The mayor also was taken to school by Japanese Olympic Committee head Yasuhiro Yamashita, from whom Kawamura said he "received guidance."

And then he offered to pay for a replacement medal, which should be delivered free of his DNA.

"I hope the arrangements are made in line with Ms. Goto's wishes, or as close as possible," Kawamura said. Goto is expected to get her replacement medal, which her team won by defeating the US, soon.