On a record setting pace...
Congratulations to 5 more Japanese Olympic medalists:
With 6 days left in the 2004 Athens Summer Games,Japan has already racked up 31 total medals,their most in a non-boycotted Summer Olympics.They're already within a medal of matching their total they hauled in the 1984 Los Angeles Games which were boycotted by the then-Soviet Union and most of its satellites...
- Saori Yoshida(gold in women's freestyle wrestling,55 kg)
- Kaori Icho(gold in women's freestyle wrestling,63 kg)
- Hiroyuki Tomita(silver in men's gymnastics,parallel bars)
- Chiharu Icho(gold in women's freestyle wrestling,48 kg)
- Kyohko Hamaguchi(gold in women's freestyle wrestling,72 kg)
With 6 days left in the 2004 Athens Summer Games,Japan has already racked up 31 total medals,their most in a non-boycotted Summer Olympics.They're already within a medal of matching their total they hauled in the 1984 Los Angeles Games which were boycotted by the then-Soviet Union and most of its satellites...