Japanese women are the most powerful and strong?!

In the Women's Wrestling, Japanese showed amazing performance!!

Three Gold Medalists

Dosho, Icho, Tosaka

(from: http://www.asahi.com)

First
Eri Tosaka won the GOLD MEDAL in the 48kg level.
She is 22 years old and it's her first Olympics. Great job!

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Next,
the GOLD MEDAL again! by Kaori Icho in the 58kg level.

She has become the first woman to win a gold medal in four straight Olympic Games in any sport.

Icho making FOUR by her fingers

(from: http://www.asahi.com)

By the way, men who did it in the past are;

Al Oerter (the US) in the discus throw
Carl Lewis (the US) in the track and field
Michael Phelps (the US) in the swimming

Only three people in the Olympic history!

I think it's fair to say that Icho has become a LEGEND like Carl Lewis and Michael Phelps.

The IOC president Thomas Bach applauded her achievement in his press conference yesterday.

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This was far from over.


Sara Dosho won the GOLD MEDAL  in the 69kg level.

I thought that Japanese women wrestlers would get all the gold medals in the Wrestling.

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The next was Saori Yoshida (53kg level), who has been called "the strongest female in primates."

She was most expected to win a gold medal of all the Japanese Olympic athletes. Also, she aimed to win a gold medal in four straight Olympic Games as well as Icho.

However, she ended up the SILVER MEDAL.

Her missing the gold medal was the MOST SENSATIONAL subject in the Rio Olympics for us Japanese.

She was crying, crying and crying, and apologizing, apologizing and apologizing.
I'm sure that many Japanese including me wept with sympathy and said, "Don't be sorry."

But in the end, I said "crying too much."

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In the sensational atmosphere due to Yoshida's missing the gold medal, Rieko Kawai won the GOLD MEDAL in the 53kg level.

Kawai expresses her delight

by throwing her coach.

(from: http://mainichi.jp)

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Japanese women wrestlers have been strong for a long time, and Yoshida and Icho have been leading and driving the women wrestling world.
Both are now 30's and this might be their last Olympics. But it seems that there is no need to worry. Strong new generation has come up.
Other three gold medalists are, Tosaka is 22, Dosho is 21 and Kawai is 21. The Japan's women wrestling seems to keep being champion!