Restoring from malignant lymphoma Wrestling girl Watari Toshi retires November 12, 16:52
The representative of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics wrestling girl, who has returned to competition after treatment for malignant lymphoma, has found that he has decided to retire.
Watari is 28 years old from Matsue City.
Five years ago, he won a gold medal at the 63km class of the Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea, and entered the 75km class at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics three years ago by raising the class by two. However, after the tournament, he found malignant lymphoma, a blood cancer, and spent a year fighting illness.
After that, he returned to the competition, and in June of last year, he won the 68km class of the All Japan Championship, and participated in the World Championship.
Watari was aiming to participate in the next year's Tokyo Olympics, but according to the people concerned, he was unable to regain his original condition due to a long period of time away from fighting illness and actual fighting.
The wrestling women's 68-kilometer class that Watari wanted to participate in the Tokyo Olympics had not yet been represented, so the possibility of participating in the Olympics remained depending on the results of the All Japan Championship next month. This means that he did not participate in the All Japan Championship and decided to retire.
Regarding the decision to retire, Watari told NHK that “I did n’t expect to be able to wrestling again during the post-Olympic medical treatment. I think that I was able to resurrect because I was able to support you.I chose to retire at this timing, but it was painful, but I enjoyed wrestling for two years since I revived. No, thank you so much for your warm support so far. "