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“It was pretty much prepared and ready to go. “As you can imagine, an event that is being prepared for four years, it’s a big deal,” he said. In the meantime, Igarashi says he has no doubt Japan will be able to overcome the challenges created by the postponement of such an enormous event as the Olympics. Kanoa Igarashi will represent the country of Japan, where his parents were born, in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics next summer. Sports Huntington Beach’s Kanoa Igarashi qualifies for 2020 Olympic Games That’s the mentality I have at the moment, while spending time with my family.” … Either way, I’m still training as if it were tomorrow. It’s a lot easier to motivate and train and prepare for something you have a set date for. But normally it’s more in terms of days, and not so much months. “This waiting game for us is pretty much something we go through our whole careers. “As surfers, we’re able to cope with this a little bit better than other sports we’re nature-dependent already,” he said. And that could be tough without a timeline to work with. Igarashi, though, also wants to be ready whenever word comes that the CT season will begin. For now, the main priority is about being with family and being healthy and safe.” To be worried about being able to surf I think is a little bit selfish. “Being able to go out and surf is great, but that’s a second priority now. “It’s been family time, enjoying time with my brother, being at home and enjoying the simple things and little things, just being able to be with them, and everyone’s safe and everyone’s healthy, that’s the most important thing,” he said. Instead, like so many others, Igarashi is getting time with family, staying in Huntington Beach with his parents, Tom and Misa, and brother, Keanu.
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Video: Nathan Baker /fAi2q6圆RX- World Surf League March 26, 2020 HB providing with some fun waves last week ? “And if you’re two days out from leaving, you’re getting everything dialed in, I was just about to open up the suitcase again and wash clothes and pretty much getting ready to be on the road for the rest of the year.” “I was pretty much ready to head out for the Championship Tour, I was two days out from leaving Huntington to go ,” Igarashi said. The first contest scheduled to begin Thursday on the Gold Coast has been canceled, while the second and third contests scheduled for April at Bells Beach and Margaret River have been postponed, for now. While surfing’s debut in the Olympics has been delayed, a more immediate effect on high-level surfing came with the cancellation or postponement of the Australian leg of the 11-event CT season. But at the same time I don’t dwell on the negatives about it, there are much bigger things to worry about.” So it took a little bit of the leverage off and the shock out of it. “To see that happening and how rapidly it’s been moving, I could smell coming. And I feel their timeline is about three weeks ahead of us. I have many friends in Europe and obviously Europe’s been hit.
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“Just seeing the way the virus was spreading so quickly. “I kind of saw it coming like a month ago,” he said. When word of the Olympics postponement came earlier this week, Igarashi said it wasn’t a surprise. Olympics Complete coverage: Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021įull coverage of the International Olympic Committee’s decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games until 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak. The Olympics are kind of a second priority.” I’m more invested in seeing what I can do to help my community as much as I can as a human. It’s not a time to be selfish and be worried about my own opportunities. “Just getting our world back in order, economically and the crisis we’re in. “The Olympics are great, it’s a huge opportunity, a huge event, but in the bigger scheme of things we have much bigger problems to face right now,” said Igarashi, 22. While sporting events from the Olympics all the way down to local Little Leagues have been canceled or postponed, Igarashi was quick to temper disappointment with a sense of perspective. The goal of gold, however, had to be delayed until next year following the decision by the International Olympic Committee and Japan to postpone the Games, likely until the summer of 2021, because of the coronavirus. His goals for 2020? Finish top three on the CT and win Olympic gold. 6 in the world - he qualified for the Games and was looking forward to representing Japan in surfing’s Olympic debut in August. Though he fell just short in the final CT rankings - he finished No. The Huntington Beach surfer last year set goals of finishing in the top five on the World Surf League’s Championship Tour, and qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Kanoa Igarashi is big on goal-setting, and even bigger on goal-achieving.