We're going to the opening ceremony of the World Athletics Championships tomorrow night (Saturday), and again on Monday night for the final of the hammer competition. The hammer is the only discipline in which Japan has a remote chance of a medal, except perhaps the women's marathon, and Koji Murofushi, the Olympic champion, is biracial like my kids, son of a Japanese father and Romanian mother. (Though in his case both were Olympic athletes, father in the hammer and mother in the javelin.) It'll be good for the boys to see a biracial role model who isn't a TV talent, not to mention a once-in-a-lifetime chance - how often is a World Championships of any description held in Osaka?
Keep an eye out for us if you watch the ceremony!
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