I couldn't leave the pool for a while after the race.
Japan Championship for swimming on the 6th.
In the women's 200-meter individual medley final, Rika Oomoto broke the standard dispatch record but finished third.
I missed the participation in the Tokyo Olympics in my favorite event.
Omoto has been expected to play an active role in the world by winning the domestic tournament in his second year of high school.
After four years of college, he steadily strengthened his muscles and became the first adult to represent the world championships.
And last year, when I was in my first year as a member of society, I was thinking of retiring from the front line of competition at the time of the Tokyo Olympics.
The postponement of the Olympics decided at that time.
"What you can do with this year. More I think we can do something in order to approach the medal"
was inspired feelings.
In the past year, I have been working on improving freestyle, which I am most good at.
Being aware of the last spurt of the individual medley, I changed from a "forced" swim to a compact swim with less water resistance, and in February I was steadily producing results such as giving my best in the 50 meters freestyle. It was.
The best time for the 200-meter individual medley was also second only to Japanese record holder Yui Ohashi, and he was steadily moving toward his first Olympic appearance.
However, the rigor of the one-shot competition representative selection is confronted.
In the final on the 6th, Omoto was the top in the first butterfly.
After finishing the backstroke, I will return to the first half in 2nd place following Ohashi.
However, in the second half, he was overtaken by Rio de Janeiro Olympic representative Miho Teramura in the breaststroke, which he was not good at, and retreated to 3rd place.
Even after that, I couldn't catch Teramura who was ahead.
As a result, Teramura won the championship and Ohashi finished second.
Omoto missed the offer of representative in this event.
Coach Toru Horinouchi, who coaches Omoto, has long been wary of Teramura's strength, saying, "Athletes who have experienced the Olympics will desperately want to go out again." It became a thing.
Omoto who couldn't even leave the pool for a while after the race.
I couldn't stop crying in front of the press, but he said, "I'm really disappointed that I couldn't rewind in the last freestyle. I want to win the 100m freestyle and break the standard record for dispatching relay members." , I vowed to rewind.