Source: Sports Weekly
On January 20, the Executive Committee of the Japanese Olympic Committee received the documents of the beijing Winter Olympics delegation, preparing to arrange speed skater Miho Takagi as the leader of the delegation, and at the same time, the Japanese Olympic Committee will make speed skating female athlete Ariza Go and Nordic male athlete Watanabe Xiaodou as the flag bearers of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee has suggested that the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games can use two flag bearers, one man and one woman. The 33-year-old Watanabe won two consecutive Nordic silver medals at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Xiang Yalisha finished eighth in the women's 500m group at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Subsequently, she announced her retirement, but the following year Xiang Yalisha returned again and began to prepare for the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the selection competition for Japanese speed skaters competing for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Nagano Prefecture last December, Xiang Yalisha finished second in the women's 500m group and qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Miho Takagi won the gold medal in the women's team pursuit in speed skating at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Two-time Figure Skating Star Yu Yu, once considered a popular candidate for the Japanese team at the Beijing Winter Olympics, was unexpectedly defeated.
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