{"id":292,"date":"2004-04-01T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/?p=292"},"modified":"2022-04-19T05:49:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T20:49:17","slug":"the-35th-national-winter-games-for-the-deaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/2004\/04\/01\/pid292","title":{"rendered":"The 35th National Winter Games for the Deaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from April 2004 Issue of Japanese Deaf News, JFD\u2019s monthly newspaper:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heated Competition and Warm Friendship on Mt. Tateyama<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"alignright photobox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/04\/2004-04a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2004-04a1\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cap\">Women&#8217;s Snowboard Slalom Medalists (from left): 3rd place Ms. Imanishi<br \/>\n(Osaka), 1st place Ms. Kato (Tokyo), 2nd place Ms. Motoki (Nagano)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 35th National Winter Games for the Deaf (organized by the Japanese Federation of the Deaf and hosted by Toyama Deaf Welfare Association) was held for 4 days (February 26-29) in Gokurakuzaka Skiing Area in Oyama-cho, Toyama Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>Competitions were held in three categories: Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding and Technique. 87 athletes from all over Japan (except for the 2 blocks of Chugoku and Kyushu) participated.<\/p>\n<p>The courses of the 2000 National Athletic Meet were made available for the games and athletes gallantly challenged the courses that require high techniques.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In the Men&#8217;s Masters&#8217; Alpine Skiing division, Ryuichi Sakaki (Akita), former Deaflymplics Alpine skier, showed outstanding performance. Sakaki participated in both Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding and won prizes in both.<\/p>\n<p>In the Men&#8217;s Snowboarding division, Satoshi Sakurai (Hokkaido) did exceedingly well by beating a former Deaflympics athlete and winning the first prize in the slalom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/04\/2004-04a2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2004-04a2\" width=\"200\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-298\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/04\/2004-04a3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2004-04a3\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-299\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from April 2004 Issue of Japanese Deaf News, JFD\u2019s monthly newspaper: Heated Competition and Warm Friendship on Mt. Tateyama Women&#8217;s Snowboard Slalom Medalists (from left): 3rd place Ms. Imanishi (Osaka), 1st place Ms. Kato (Tokyo), 2nd place Ms. Motoki (Nagano) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/2004\/04\/01\/pid292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-jdn","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfd.or.jp\/en-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}