CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO
\nJapanese alpine sit skier Takeshi Suzuki won bronze in the men\u2019s slalom the final day of competition at the Milan Cortina Paralympic Games, bringing Japan\u2019s medal haul to four. The medal is the first in 12 years for the 37-year-old Suzuki, who has previously won three including a gold in the men\u2019s slalom sitting in Sochi in 2014.
\nA delighted Suzuki said he was \u201cglad\u201d to have won a medal after two unsuccessful games. \u201cThe first thing that crossed my mind was my wife\u2019s face and those of my son and daughter, and everyone who has supported me.\u201d Suzuki clinched bronze as athletes powered through snowfall and fog at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Center, a rarity for the Paralympic events at Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo.
\nSuzuki said the poor visibility proved a blessing, as it allowed him to produce riskier skiing. Suzuki\u2019s Japanese alpine skiing stablemate, seven-time Paralympian Taiki Morii, also competed, finishing fourth. It marked the first time since the 2002 Salt Lake City Games that the 45-year-old Morii, who has won seven medals, failed to reach the podium. But the veteran skier took the result positively.
\n\u201cI thought if I had to lose to someone, I\u2019d want it to be Takeshi,\u201d he said of Suzuki. \u201cIn that sense, this was the best loss I could hope for.\u201d Ahead of the Milan Cortina Games, Morii had begun to talk of the current season as his last purely as an athlete, as he looks to begin training the next generation alongside competing.
\nIn cross-country skiing in Tesero, Japan\u2019s Taiki Kawayoke ended sixth in the men\u2019s 20-kilometer interval start free standing, while compatriot Yoshihiro Nitta, competing in an eighth consecutive winter Paralympics, came 20th. Kawayoke, the gold medal winner in the men\u2019s long distance standing classic at Beijing in 2022, struggled to find his winning form in Milan Cortina, and goes home empty-handed.With Suzuki\u2019s bronze, Japan\u2019s medal total ended at four. In 2022 Beijing Games, Japan won seven medals, including four gold. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO Japanese alpine sit skier Takeshi Suzuki won bronze in the men\u2019s slalom the final day of competition at the Milan Cortina Paralympic Games, bringing Japan\u2019s medal haul to four. The medal is the first in 12 years for the 37-year-old Suzuki, who has previously won three including a gold in the men\u2019s slalom …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":95181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95185,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95171\/revisions\/95185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}