Tokyo Para gold medal goals are the largest ever in 20 pieces February 17 17:46
The opening of the Tokyo Paralympics will be 200 days in 7 days. The JPC-Japan Paralympic Committee has announced its intention to aim for 20 gold medals, the highest ever for a Japanese team at the Tokyo Games.
The JPC held a press conference in Tokyo on July 7, and Vice Chairman Hidefumi Takahashi revealed his intention to aim for 20 gold medals, the highest ever at the Tokyo Paralympics.
Up to now, the Seoul Games in 1988 and the Athens Games in 2004 had the highest number of 17 games, and the last Rio de Janeiro Games ended with no gold medal.
The JPC had set a goal of 22 gold medals so far, but after a thorough review, it has set the number of wins to 20, which is equivalent to the 7th place in the world.
At the conference this month, she won the four major tennis tournament and the Australian Open wheelchair club singles, and Shingo Kunieda, the number one player in the world ranking, also attended, "Aiming for a gold medal, paying enough attention to injuries I want to be able to perform better than I expected. "
"We recognize that the goal is very high, but we want to believe that we will reach 20 as a result of our players performing at their best and not impossible. Through the performance, I would like you to think about the issues and barriers in front of you that you noticed. "
In addition, it was announced that the Japanese team and their supporters would be treated as a single team, "Team Paralympic Japan", and that the tournament would be energized. As a symbol, various obstacles were marked with red circles of different shades. , The slogan "Over, everyone!"