From 20:00 on Sunday, January 16th, the 10th broadcast of Nippon Broadcasting System’s Lipobitan for Sports presents “The Deep”, in which sports writer Tatsuhito Kaneko serves as a personality, won a silver medal at the Tokyo Paralympic 2020 wheelchair men’s basketball. Reo Fujimoto who won appeared remotely.
Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1983, Fujimoto lost his right knee in a car accident at the age of 9, and in junior high school and high school he put on a prosthesis and played basketball with a healthy person. He met wheelchair basketball in his third year of high school and became a representative of Japan at the age of 19.
Since 2004, the Paralympics have participated in five consecutive tournaments in Beijing, London, Rio and Tokyo. Until then, 7th place was the best result, but at Tokyo 2020, he made a great leap forward to win the silver medal.
● Wheelchair Basketball Men’s National Team Tokyo 2020 All Results
・ Primary league group A
Japan 63-56 Colombia
Japan 59-52 South Korea
Japan 62-56 Canada
Japan 61-79 Spain
Japan 67-55 Turkey
(2nd place in the group after Spain with 9 points)
quaterfinals
Japan 61-55 Australia
Semifinal
Japan 79-68 United Kingdom
final
Japan 60-64 America
Reo Fujimoto, Japan’s representative for wheelchair basketball who appeared remotely
The appearance of crying after the semi-final match against England is impressive.
“I was crying during the match and my teammates got angry. I couldn’t stop anymore. I was on the bench in the 4th quarter, and during that time I was scoring points, no matter how best I defended. Even so, I continued to make a solid line of defense, and even if it was decided, I went to the offense immediately, decided a shot from an early development and focused on the defense again. The repetition was exactly the basketball that I made over 5 years. I thought it was really strong when I saw him fighting evenly with Britain, who is competing for the top of the world. is”
He lost to the United States, who played in the final, in the practice match just before the tournament.
“I lost by a huge difference. It was very meaningful because I hadn’t held an international tournament in Corona for about two years. The United States was reacting quite a bit to our defense, so the response was There was. “Oh, if you win, this is it! I don’t think I’ll win by scoring points. “
The match against the United States in the final match was a fierce seesaw game if I expected to lose from an amateur’s point of view.
“I got off to a great start. All five of my opponents were shooters, but I was able to bargain like a shot instead of not letting them shoot. That’s the part that grew throughout the tournament, and in terms of skill. I was able to fight using as much basketball bargaining as I could. “
He took the lead in the fourth quarter.
“When I took the lead in the previous games, there was a voice saying that instead of being aware of winning or losing, I would work hard to the end and run through, overwhelming with my basket, but in that final. Only at the moment when the gold medal passed my head, “Because there are only a few minutes left! “Like … I felt a conservative atmosphere, even though I said I should do it normally.”
Even if it was reversed after that, it continued to eat until the end.
“I made one big mistake of going conservatively over there, but at the end of the 40th minute I felt like we had a basket that deserved the final.”
After looking back on the Tokyo Paralympics 2020, he talked about how to take Lipovitan for Sports.
“Drink lipobitan shot for Sports (soft drink) before the game, add lipobitan jelly for Sports” soft drink (jelly drink) “in half time, and use lipobitan powder for recovery (intake of nutrients consumed during exercise). These are the three pillars that use for Sports (dietary supplements)! “
If you want to hear more about how to drink Fujimoto, who is known as a coffee lover, about the match against the United States in the Tokyo Paralympics final, or if you missed this broadcast, you can use the time-free function with the free app “radiko” until one week after the broadcast. It will be audible.
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Lipobitan for Sports presents “The Deep”
Broadcasting every Sunday from 20:00.
You can listen to it on radiko until one week after the broadcast.
The director’s cut version is being distributed on the podcast.
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