Miyuki Yamada, a 14-year-old third-year junior high school student at the Tokyo Paralympics, won the silver medal, the second medal of this tournament, in the 50-meter backstroke movement disorder class for women's swimming races held on the 2nd.
The 14-year-old, the youngest medalist of the Japanese Paralympic team, made a live appearance on an NHK program at dawn and talked about his joy.
The full text of Yamada's interview.
"I really enjoyed it from the start"
Summer of great success.
I had a good expression at the time of the race-
"I saw it for the first time, but I'm glad I got a good expression" The
first Paralympic Games.
He said he was nervous and trembled when he finished the first race.
The final 4th race-
"I think I enjoyed it very much from the start"
The 50m final on the 2nd.
The feeling I put into the start was-
"I thought that even if I built my body in the past week, the time would not be faster. I can only improve the start, so I'm really happy to concentrate on that and work hard and get results. is"
(Race) over I went to aggressive from the first half
"because if would save from 50m, so the first half I thought that it is not possible to exert all his power, it was nice to go to attack from the first half,"
finished the race There was a word that I was disappointed-
"The pace slowed down in the second half, and the Singaporean players were so fast that I was caught up. I was disappointed because I was aiming for the gold medal."
"When I'm nervous, I just think about opening up and having fun."
How was it after all the races?
"I was nervous in every race, but I'm very happy
to be able to
swim comfortably and stand on the same stage as the athletes in the world."
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"and got defiant attitude that tension, I think it's because swimming thinking only to enjoy"
at the age of five and started to swim, has been earnest aim to see the last of the Rio Paralympic Games at the age of nine.
What kind of thoughts have sprung up?
"At first I was just longing for it, but after starting the competition, I heard that I became more and more greedy. I came aiming for a medal."
How to swim to the maximum "come out naturally"
I've been aiming for a swim that maximizes my strength, and what kind of place do you think you
are in the swim? There were many times, but I think that a powerful kick that firmly grasped the water is my swim. "
How
do you
move your legs?
" The right leg is the same as a healthy person, but I move it up and down. There is also a movement to open the bottom from the knee and move it with the left foot. ”
How did you train this way of swimming?
“ It was a natural swim, and when I noticed it, it was this swim. ”
The inscription on the right is "Selflessness is the basis of laziness."
The most difficult thing on the Paralympic stage was-
"I'm nervous. I'm very vulnerable to tension because the number of games I've experienced in the world tournament was small, so I'm glad I was able to set a time close to my personal best.
" Selflessness is the basis of laziness. "
The reason is-
"I think that if you take everything seriously, you will get" greed ". You want to aim higher or get a medal. I think that greed is not a bad thing, so I myself I wanted to do my best to obediently follow my desires. "
Even on days when you are not strong, "practice trying to do your best for your goals"
When you think that force is not out of the Naika
". There are a lot but is about thinks every day, I try to do my best today for their goals we are working hard to practice"
this year is ahead of the take over
": I want to be a person who can study hard and work on subjects that I am not good at and things that I don't like, so I want to work on subjects that I am not good at and pass the school of my choice. "