The practices of the swimmers selected to be on the Japanese national swimming team at the Paris Olympics were shown to the press. Rikako Ikee, who will be competing in her third consecutive Olympics, said, "I want to become an athlete who will make people think, ``Ikee has returned to the world.'' I want to go to Paris," he said.
Akira Honda, a silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics who was selected to represent the men's 200m butterfly in this event, said of the competition he attended with an injured left ankle, 'I was in pain, worried, and wondering what to do'