Hiromi Miyake, a weightlifting player who retired from active duty at the end of the Tokyo Olympics, held a press conference and looked back on his 21-year competitive life, saying, "It was a very happy time to continue my favorite competition for a long time."
Miyake, who has been active as a leading weightlifting girl for many years, held a press conference in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo on the 18th, which was his 36th birthday.
Miyake won the silver medal, the first weightlifting girl's medal at the 2012 London Games, and the bronze medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. I got it.
Miyake, who retired from active duty at the end of this summer's Tokyo tournament, said at a press conference, "I'm tired of it, so nothing will continue, but I was absorbed in this competition without getting tired of it, and I was able to continue for 21 years. It was a very happy time to be able to continue my favorite competition for a long time, and I was able to live a competitive life crazy about it. "
And about his father, Yoshiyuki, who was a bronze medalist at the Mexico Olympics and has been engaged in the competition with two people, "I had a lot of collisions, but when I was having a hard time, I thought about it together and supported it with positive words to do my best now. It was an opportunity to overcome various challenges and I am full of gratitude. "
In the future, he will be coaching as a coach of the company he belongs to, saying, "I am still immature as a coach, but as the players grow, I want to improve myself firmly. I want to study various things in order to support them so that they can be trained. "