On the 16th, a week before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, a send-off party for the Japanese national team of canoeing was held online, and Takuya Haneda, who is aiming to win medals for the second consecutive tournament in the slalom men's Canadian single, said, "I will do my best to play sports. I want to do my best so that you can feel the wonderfulness of the game. "
The canoe of the Tokyo Olympics will be a sprint that competes for speed on slalom and still water that runs down the torrent, and a total of 12 Japanese national teams will participate.
On the 16th, a week before the opening, the Japan Canoe Federation held a send-off party for the Japanese national team of canoeing online.
Among them, Takuya Haneda of Canoe Slalom, who won the first bronze medal in a canoeing competition at the Rio de Janeiro Games, said on behalf of the players, "It has been one of the best since the Tokyo Games were decided to be held eight years ago. I can't believe that the tournament is approaching in the next week, but I feel comfortable tension and excitement. "
On top of that, based on the current situation where the effects of the new coronavirus continue, "There were various restrictions on the training environment, and there were places where it did not go as expected, but I was always searching for what I could do. I will do my best to make people who see the wonderfulness of sports feel it. "
The competition will be held from 25th to 30th of this month for canoe slalom and from 2nd to 7th of next month for canoe sprint.