National Honor Award

According to some newspaper, the Japanese government plans to send People’s Honor Award to a Japanese female wrestler Kaori Icho who won her fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal at the Rio Games.

Icho became the first woman to win gold in four consecutive Olympics in any individual event. I think she deserves to win the award. Three times Olympic winner Saori Yoshida already won the award in 2012. 

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Japan Wins Silver 4×100

Japan's 4×100 relay team took silver medal in Japan's new record time 37.60 at the Rio Olympics. Tha last runner Cambridge got the baton about the same time as Bolt and powered with full speed. He finally grabbed silver after Bolt and Jamaica. Japanese athletes took the first silver at Olympic track in a sprinting event.

Watching the event on TV, I was really excited about the performance. No one in the Japanese team has a sub-10 time for the 100m, but every runner did really well especially the handovers at the race. 

AP said on the web "Usain Bolt and Jamaica wins gold in relay _ and a Jamaican-born sprinter helps Japan win silver". 

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Japan Wins Bronze Medal

Congratulations! Japan women's table tennis team has won the bronze medal at tha 2016 Rio Olympics. The match was against Singapore with a 3-1 victory. 

At the first single match, Ai Fukuhara was defeated, but after that Japan got three match straight. 

Mima Ito won the fourth match and grabbed the bronze medal. She was 15 years and 300 days old and became the youngest table tennis Olympic medalist ever. 

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Japan Men's Table Tennis Goes to Final

Japan men's table tennis team has reached to the final for the first time at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Japan couldn't win against Germany for a lond time, but they did it at last. 

Japan will face China at the final. China is very strong team. They has Rio Olympics individual gold and silver medalists. It would be reall hard to beat China, but I hope Japan upsets China this time. 

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Kei Wins Bronze

Kei Nishikori became the first Japanese medalist since Ichiya Kumagai at the 1929 Antwerp Olympics. Kei defeated Rafael Nadal with a 2-1 to get bronze at Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. 

I watched the game on TV. In the second set, he was about to get the medal, only one game to win. Nadal came back from the edge and took back 5 set straight. 

The third set, Nishikori got the first break. Nadal couldn't came back from that. 

I'm reall glad Kei's bronze medal. I hope he comes back to Matsue, his hometown, and to show the Olympic meal to us. 

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Bronze Medal Match

Kei Nishikori was defeated by Andy Murray with a 1-6, 4-6 will face Spain’s Rafael Nadal in Sunday’s bronze-medal match. Nishikori had only beaten Nadal once in seven previous encounters. If he win the next game, he will become the first Japanese man to win an Olympic tennis singles medal since the 1920 Antwerp Game. 

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The First Medal for Japan

Jun Mizutani won the first bronze medal for Japan at Rio de Janeiro Olympic table tennis men's single against Vladimir Samsonov, Belarus. Japanese table tennis lovers longed an Olympic medal since 1988 when table tennis was introduced in Olympics. I was really glad Mizutani's success. 

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Table Tennis Exhibition Match

I went to new Matsue City Gymnasium yesterday. The 50th anniversary Matsue City Table Tennis Taurnament was held there. To celebrate the anniversary, table tennis association invited two male Olympic players there. 

The two player, Seiya Kishikawa and Kenta Matsudaira showed their practices and did an exhibition game. Their play was beautiful and fascinating. Many fans enjoyed their extraordinary plays. Sometimes, it looked achromatic. 

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TOKYO 2020 Olympic Logos

Tokyo 2020 Olympic logos came out today, after the first emblems' withdrowal due to its accusation of plagiarism. Among other three candidates, the new design was the most simple one used traditional Japanese color and patterns. They said it represented the intercultural themes of the Games. 

I also like the new emblem. In my view, the new one has a good traditional Japanese touch in it. 

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