Barring injury, the Japanese men’s team competing for gold in Beijing will be Hiroyuki Tomita, Kohei Uchimura, Koki Sakamoto, Takehiro Kashima, Makoto Okiguchi, Takuya Nakase.
The women’s team, announced at the same time, is Kyoko Oshima, Miki Uemura, Yu Minobe, Koko Tsurumi, Yuko Shintake, Mayu Kuroda.
Japan is the first country I know of to announce its Olympic teams, although it’s been speculated that China’s women’s team will consist of Cheng Fei, Yang Yilin, He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan and two others. The Japanese men were second to the Chinese by a sizeable margin at the 2007 World Championships. The Japanese women grabbed the 12th and final team berth to Beijing.
Tags: Cheng Fei, He Kexin, Hioyuki Tomita, Jiang Yuyuan, Kohei Uchimura, Koki Sakamoto, Koko Tsurumi, Kyoko Oshima, Makoto Okiguchi, Mayu Kuroda, Miki Uemura, Takehiro Kashima, Takuya Nakase, Yang Yilin, Yu Minobe, Yuko Shintake
May 8, 2008 at 5:14 am |
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