The Japan Championships for Swimming, which will be the representative selection for the Tokyo Olympics.

Japan record holder Yasuhiro Koseki finished in 7th place in the men's 100-meter breaststroke final and missed the offer of representative in the favorite event.

“To be remembered by my daughter”

"As a father, I want to show the great figure of father as memorable. Daughter with a resolution in two ways as athlete"



for Ozeki players had been told so the thought of the Tokyo Olympic Games to position the culmination of the competition life, of the most The support was the presence of two daughters and a family who began to feel at home.



"I'm probably the last to aim for the Olympics this year, so I definitely want to go out. I'm often out of the house on an expedition, so my wife is burdened with raising children. I know it, so I have a strong feeling of "whatever". "This is



the second big stage that was supposed to be celebrated at the age of 28 after winning a prize at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

I was confident and responsive to the family who supported me on the podium.



In addition to the strength of the upper body, the recovery of the knee injury strengthened the kick, and at the representative selection meeting scheduled for April last year, it was so fulfilling that it would not be strange to shorten his own Japanese record by nearly one second. It is said that it was in a state.

With the Olympics postponed for one year ...

However, in August of last year after the postponement of the Olympics, Ozeki, who appeared in front of the press for the first time in a while, lost his former ambition.



"It's not without a sense of loss. I have a desire to do my best, but I'm doing it in a crossed feeling." I lost



4 kg, and the blessed physique of 1 meter 88 cm and the thick chest plate look a little smaller I did.



After that, he won the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in the short waterway international league held in October last year, overtaking gold medalist Adam Peaty and showed signs of recovery, but the environment has changed, such as changes in affiliation and practice base. Because of this, I couldn't get the time I expected at the tournament just before the selection.

Even in the final race on the 4th, he did not improve, and when he turned back in 2nd place in the first half, he gradually stalled in the second half and finished at 1'0.11 seconds, which was about 1 second slower than his own Japanese record.



After the race, he said, "I wasn't feeling sick, but at the end it was very tight and I got this result. I was thinking of quitting last November and never swimming in December." ..



"I'll do my best for the rest," he said plainly to the 200-meter breaststroke, where qualifying will begin two days later.