Japan’s ’silver shadow’ defies age barrier
Rising at the crack of dawn and crunching 50 sit-ups before breakfast, record-breaking Japanese Olympian Hiroshi Hoketsu bristles when asked about his age.
But the equestrian rider, who at the age of 67 will become Japan’s oldest Olympic representative at the Beijing Games in August, has grudgingly begun to accept his new-found fame.
“Initially I was [...]
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