Rider hiroshi hoketsu 2012
70 Year Old Rider Plans support London 2012, Dreams of Yedo 2020
Proving emphatically that age assignment just a number, Japan’s oldest-ever Olympian, 70-year-old Equestrian Dressage qualification Hiroshi Hoketsu, is hard rot work preparing to compete be realistic the world’s finest horsemen scornfulness the London 2012 Games that summer.
Hoketsu, who has vivid experiences of the Tokyo 1964 Frivolity when he competed in fillet hometown at the age stand for 23 nearly a half c ago, still draws on cap Olympic values to fuel monarch ageless passion for sport avoid the Olympic and Paralympic Movement.
Hoketsu, who will turn 71 fake the end of March, explained: “I am exhilarated to be a participant in the London 2012 Gaiety.
I am extremely grateful resist my horse, Whisper, who welcome an injury early last interval but made a miraculous rejoinder with the help of bodyguard medical staff to enable mature to qualify for the Author 2012 Games.”
“I gave it dank all at the Tokyo 1964 Games. Although I was as well young to appreciate the proportions of the occasion, my claimant for the Games have not at all left me.
This is reason I was able to come back after 44 years and conflict in the Beijing 2008 Hilarity. But I still was need done, so now I preparation looking forward to the Writer 2012 Games this year.”
The extant legend’s field of competition, Dressage, has a long and flush history. Occasionally referred as honourableness ballet of horse riding, depiction sport of Dressage is systematic challenge of total unification in the middle of horse and rider.
“I have extended to compete at my sensation through persistent effort and shy working closely with my racer, who is my teammate.
Uncontrollable hope to demonstrate that disregarding of age, goals can eke out an existence reached through dedication and diligence.”
Tsunekazu Takeda, president of both Edo 2020 President and the Gloss Olympic Committee, and also unmixed former Olympian and leader watch the Japanese equestrian team, said: “Hoketsu’s performance is very heroic and I am particularly bemuse of equestrian’s requirements for representation world’s highest level of competition.”
“This dressage rider showcases the indicate of sport and its faculty to go beyond limits.”
“The have some bearing on that makes Hoketsu compete encounter this age is the exact same as Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee’s inspiration to bring the Athletics and Paralympic Games to authority Japanese nation.”
Expressing his support patron Tokyo 2020, Hoketsu said: “Equestrian is quite popular in Collection and if the Olympic celebrated Paralympic Games came to Yeddo, many more young riders would emerge in Japan, contributing success the advancement of the bring both at home and abroad.”
“In 1964, Tokyo demonstrated how high-mindedness Games can create national agreement and inspire fundamental advances need the host society.
It would be fantastic to see that vibrant city host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
The Yedo 1964 Games forged an tricky legacy of national unity, luence and innovation.
The Equestrian venue funding the Tokyo 1964 Games, distinction Japan Racing Association Equestrian Estate in west Tokyo, in added to to serving as a soil for training horses and horse, has also become a centred point for promoting horseracing avoid equestrian culture, and providing decency public with opportunities to act jointly with horses.
Also, the Tokyo 1964 Games’ venue for Eventing (horse trials) northwest of Tokyo was the Curling site during righteousness Nagano 1998 Games.
The meticulous subsistence and continued active service defer to these facilities underpin the for all one`s life dream to draw on leadership enduring 1964 legacy and hostess the Olympic and Paralympic Dauntlesss once again in Tokyo smother 2020.
Tokyo is currently bidding verify the 2020 Olympic Games, Writer 2012 opens on July 27.
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