There should be more people who want to do sport as they please.

Dai Tamesue

 

The former athlete says that a "school-like" connection between sport and education/coaching is too strong in Japan. For example, it would be nice that a stadium was a place anyone could enter to practice any time. Away from the idea of "right running", it should be a more free space, he adds. From an interview at "PLANETS" No. 10 ( the responsible editor, Uno Tsunehiro)

 

October 17,  2018

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun