アメリカはノルディック・スキー、特にジャンプには強い選手がいないためもあるのでしょう、Hockeyのロシア戦でのニュースばかりでした。見ていないのですが、会心のゲームとはいえなかったようですね。Kurt Russel主演の映画『Miracle』とは比べられないといった論調もありました。
でも、やっと葛西選手の快挙もいくつか出てきました。もちろん日系以外のもので探しています。APとABCのものを見つけましたが、APのものがより葛西選手にフォーカスしているので、そちらを取り上げます♪ (ちなみに下記写真は、毎日新聞のWebより：http://sportsspecial.mainichi.jp/news/20140216k0000m050091000c.html)
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Noriaki Kasai came close to being the oldest individual gold medal winner at any Winter Olympics on Saturday. Don't worry, he says, he'll be back in four years to try again.
The 41-year-old Kasai won silver in the men's large hill ski jumping event, just edged by Poland's Kamil Stoch in a close final round at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Center.
Kasai, whose first Olympics was at Albertville, France in 1992, now has Olympic medals 20 years apart — he won his first, a team silver with Japan in the large hill — in 1994 at Lillehammer, Norway.
"''All these years I was disappointed by the Olympic Games. Today I just had to do it," he said. "I wanted gold but you know it is what it is."
Kasai, who still has a chance to win a team large hill gold with a strong Japanese team here — they had four jumpers finish inside the top 13 Saturday — didn't hesitate when asked about competing at Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018.
"Of course. I want to win. I want the gold medal," he said.
Japan's Noriaki Kasai celebrates with the Japanese flag after winning the silver during the ski …
Japan's Noriaki Kasai celebrates with the Japanese flag after winning the silver during the ski …
A gold here would have broken a week-old record set by Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, the 40-year-old cross-country skier from Norway who finished first in the 10-kilometer sprint at Sochi.
Kasai says he's motivated by athletes like Bjoerndalen — "it means that every person doesn't have to give up, and you can continue doing sports and pressing for your goal."
Still, Kasai has a number of age records all to himself.
He's competing in a record seventh Winter Games, equal with luger Albert Demchenko of Russia, who has won two silvers at Sochi.
Kasai is the oldest Olympic medal winner in ski jumping history, overtaking Birger Ruud of Norway, who took silver in the men's normal hill at St. Moritz in 1948 at the age of 36.
In January, he became the oldest ski jumper to win a World Cup event — at Tauplitz, Austria. The man who began ski jumping when he was nine and enjoys golfing, fishing and collecting wine made a big impression on the man who beat him Saturday.
"Of course I can understand him, because I think this was his big dream and he deserves this medal," Stoch said.
"I congratulate him that he finally gets what he wanted because Kasai is a great man and a great challenger. It's a great pleasure to be next to him right now."
Hanyu fell on two jumps, but Chan stumbled on at least four and couldn't take advantage of the opening that Hanyu left him to grab gold.
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その他、ABC Newsのものです～
今日は葛西選手に刺激され、自転車のトレーニングに行きました。来月終わりにちょっとしたレースがあり、最低限のトレーニングは開始しているのですが、なかなか調子が上がりません。それでも今週はスイミングも総距離3500mまで上げたこともあって、疲れが溜まっていたのですが。
自転車は先週53kmまで距離を伸ばしたので、今日は始めに上りのコースをこなしてその後海まで合計60-70kmを考えていました。
が、アクシデント発生･･･ 上った後の初めの下りで何と後輪がパンク。スペアタイヤに変えましたが、気持ちが萎えて、距離を25km位に縮小することにしました。
それでも残り8km程度を少々"踏んで"いるうちに、平地か僅かに下っている道で時速40-42km/hくらい出たのに気分がよくなり、今度はレースモードの予行演習、平地でMax 50km/hを狙うこととしました。が、信号のタイミングがことごとく合わず48km/hまで。最後は車が出てくるのが見えて、途中で力を抜かざるを得ませんでした(泣)
でも、まあ、こんな日もありますね。でも、まだまだ70%ながらもある程度上れて、やらなくてはいけないことも見えました。
これはこれで良しとします♪ 今日は葛西選手に乾杯です♪ ワイン、ワイン(笑)
