The Lost Games
04/22/21 • 64 min
Japan has an incredible Parasport history. Not particularly in medals - they're only 18th overall, but in the influence they have on Parasport events. They've hosted the longest running wheelchair marathon event in Oita and their coverage of the 1998 Nagano games was a great populariser of the Winter Paralympics.
But there's more, there are two games which are lost to popular and even institutional memory that Japan hosted. We're joined by Dennis Frost from Kalamazoo College in the US who talks us through the incredible Other Tokyo 1964 Games and The FESPIC Games . Two hugely influential events that are largely forgotten.
Dennis Frost: https://eas.kzoo.edu/about/people/
Check out Dennis' incredible Book More than Medals
Japan Sport Stories is hosted by Noel Thatcher and Mike Salter.
Come look at our website and follow us on twitter for more Japan Sport Content
We are proud partners with the Japan Research Centre at SOAS, University of London and generously funded by the Toshiba Foundation.
Japan has an incredible Parasport history. Not particularly in medals - they're only 18th overall, but in the influence they have on Parasport events. They've hosted the longest running wheelchair marathon event in Oita and their coverage of the 1998 Nagano games was a great populariser of the Winter Paralympics.
But there's more, there are two games which are lost to popular and even institutional memory that Japan hosted. We're joined by Dennis Frost from Kalamazoo College in the US who talks us through the incredible Other Tokyo 1964 Games and The FESPIC Games . Two hugely influential events that are largely forgotten.
Dennis Frost: https://eas.kzoo.edu/about/people/
Check out Dennis' incredible Book More than Medals
Japan Sport Stories is hosted by Noel Thatcher and Mike Salter.
Come look at our website and follow us on twitter for more Japan Sport Content
We are proud partners with the Japan Research Centre at SOAS, University of London and generously funded by the Toshiba Foundation.
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