The medal was awarded to Taiki Morii, who won the bronze medal in the sitting and sliding class of the men's super-G Men's alpine skiing at the Beijing Paralympics.
Morii said in his second bronze medal at the tournament, "I felt blessed with the people around me."
41-year-old Morii participated in the men's super-G men's sitting and sliding class on the 6th, following the men's downhill on the 5th, and won the second bronze medal in this tournament with the slip that "there was a response". ..
At the medal award ceremony held in Yanqing, a suburb of Beijing, on the night of the 6th, Morii received a bronze medal and smiled.
However, at Super-G, the long-awaited gold medal did not reach, "It became a medal that frankly regrets. However, I was able to receive the medal from Miki Matheson, the gold medalist of the Nagano Paralympics who I met for the first time at the age of 17. I was deeply moved. I thought that if I participated in the Paralympics someday, I would be able to become an energetic and vital person like Miki, but today I felt that I was blessed with the people around me. " did.
He said to his third men's super complex, which will be held on the 7th, "I think that if you can enjoy the race from the bottom of your heart, you will get a medal, so I want to enjoy it."