The Japan TimesAug 11, 2024
Japan won 20 gold medals at the Paris Olympics for its best showing at an overseas Games. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/olympics/2024/08/12/japan-medal-count-olympics/ #olympics #2024parisolympics #yukakagami #wrestling #shinnosukeoka #kokikano #yutohorigome #cocoyoshizawa #harukakitaguchi
Japan finishes third on medal table after strong showing at Paris Olympics

Japan won 20 gold medals at the Paris Olympics for its best showing at an overseas Games.

The Japan Times
The Japan TimesAug 5, 2024
From 1952 through the delayed 2020 Games in Tokyo, Japan earned a total of three medals in fencing. Over nine days of competition in Paris, Japan’s swordsmen and women bagged five. Here's how the nation became a fencing world-beater. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/olympics/2024/08/05/japan-fencing-rise/ #olympics #teamjapan #2024parisolympics #kokikano
How a grassroots push helped Japan's fencers become world-beaters

Japan bagged five fencing medals in Paris to put it atop the medal table in the sport, the first time a non-European nation has done so.

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The Japan TimesJul 29, 2024
Koki Kano, who was training as a gymnast, found inspiration from watching Olympic fencing on TV as a young boy. Now he's a two-time gold medalist. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/olympics/2024/07/29/koki-kano-gold-fencing/ #olympics #teamjapan #2024parisolympics #kokikano #fencing
Koki Kano: A gymnast-turned-fencer — and now a two-time Olympic gold medalist

Koki Kano, who was training as a gymnast, found inspiration from watching Olympic fencing on TV as a young boy.

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The Japan TimesJul 28, 2024
Koki Kano of Japan won the gold medal in the men's epee individual event at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/olympics/2024/07/29/koki-kano-gold-medal-fencing/ #olympics #2024parisolympics #kokikano #teamjapan
Japan's Kano wins gold in men's epee at Paris Games

Yannick Borel of France took silver and Mohamed Elsayed of Egypt was awarded bronze.

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