As a Brit living in Tokyo, watching the Olympics every four years on Japanese TV can be tough as they naturally tend to focus on their own competitors who have a chance of winning a medal. Unless it’s in athletics, swimming or gymnastics then watching a British athlete win gold on live television here is quite rare and I can only remember seeing it once in the last Olympics.
In August 2024, Tony Roberts won Olympic gold in bouldering and presumably I only ever got to see this happen because there were some Japanese competitors involved! I can’t say I knew too much about the sport before then (I still don’t!) but with the Japanese involvement I ended up seeing a fair amount of the competition unfold.
Many people often turn their noses up a bit at the sight of new sports being added to the Olympic Games as was the case with Continue reading
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