A new tournament for the Olympic bicycle track event "Keirin" will be held in Chiba City from next month, and Yudai Nitta, the representative of the Tokyo Games, who is scheduled to participate, said, "The top of the world. It is a tournament that will be a strength for Japanese athletes aiming for. "
In the Olympic event "Keirin", the "line" where athletes form a line to avoid the wind, which has been done in the conventional "bicycle race", is prohibited, and each athlete controls each other as an individual competition and competes for speed and power. It is a feature that becomes.
The newly established tournament "PIST6 Championship" is a public competition sponsored by Chiba City in order to improve competitiveness and make the competition known to more people, and top athletes from Japan and overseas will participate throughout the year. ..
Before the opening, a press conference was held in Tokyo on the 8th with the participation of Yudai Nitta and Yuta Wakimoto who participated in the Tokyo Olympics.
Among them, Nitta said, "I think it will be a tournament that will attract the attention of younger generations. It will be an opportunity for players who are always aiming for the world to fight seriously because they fight according to the rules of world standards and there are big prize money. It is a tournament that will be a strength for Japanese athletes aiming for the top of the world. "
Along with this tournament, a bicycle stadium with a world-class wooden bank with a circumference of 250 meters was newly established in Chiba Park in the city.
Wakimoto said, "Unlike Japanese bicycle races, it is a competition in the Keirin event, which is an international competition standard, so it will lead to an improvement in the competition level. I think that the world's top athletes will also participate, so it will be exciting in a different way from the Olympics." I was talking.