Momoka Muraoka won the gold medal for the second consecutive day at the Beijing Paralympics alpine skiing.
It was her third gold medal in total, including her previous tournament, and it was a race that set the record for the most Japanese athletes in the Winter Paralympics, but she was in trouble right after the start.
"I slipped out and the contact came off a little bit."
Muraoka has only about 0.1 eyesight with the naked eye, so contact lenses or glasses are usually indispensable.
To the gold medal for the second consecutive day following the downhill on the previous day, I rushed out of the start gate of Super-G at an altitude of 1825 meters, but soon one of the contact lenses came off and "I could not see anything for a moment." Is called.
This event requires a technique to turn while sliding at high speed, and one mistake divides the victory or defeat, but suddenly the visibility disappears and it is a fatal situation that "I went to a place a little different from the line I expected". I fell into.
What saved Muraoka, who was upset when he was "surprised for the first time," was the memory of the start position of the turn and the timing of the turn, which he struck in his head during the preview of the course called "inspection" just before the performance.
While I could see many gates that should have only one, I relied on the blue line attached as a guideline for the course and slid down the course of nearly 2 km in the top time with a smooth turn, two days in a row, last time. In conjunction with the tournament, he won the third gold medal in total, which is the largest number of Japanese players in the Winter Paralympics.
Kuniko Obinata, who is the fastest team leader of the Japanese alpine skiing team and has won two gold medals in the past, is the fastest of the eight people who participated in this class at 91.64 km / h. I think the course was in my head, but it's amazing. "
Muraoka said with a laugh, "I'm glad I was able to win the gold medal as a result. I want to be careful after that." I was able to see one side that seems to be a player who pursues.
Muraoka, who won the second gold medal even if he was hit by an unforeseen situation and couldn't make a satisfactory slip, has high expectations for a medal rush that surpasses the previous tournament with five medals including one gold. On the 7th, I will participate in the Super Combined.