Former Japanese Olympic Trampolinist Tetsuya Sotomura poses with one of the medals he won, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Saitama, Japan August 7, 2020. REUTERS/Jack Tarrant
SAITAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese trampolinist Tetsuya Sotomura was pushing for his country's final qualification spot for the Tokyo Olympics earlier this year but his dream was shattered when the Games were postponed.
At 35, he had already decided that the Olympics would be his last event and when organisers made the decision to postpone the Games until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sotomura knew his body wouldn't hold up for another year.
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