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Mike Rowbottom: Rikako Ikee returns after illness as a Tokyo 2020 poster girl

Monday, 5 April 2021 Ripples of appreciation and delight are spreading through the sporting world at the news of Rikako Ikee s qualification to swim at her home Olympics this summer, two years after she announced that she had leukaemia. At the time of the diagnosis in February 2019, the then 18-year-old had established herself as one of Japan’s poster athletes for the imminent Tokyo Olympics having won six golds and two silvers at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, where she was named the most valuable player of the multi-sport event. Ikee was released from hospital in January 2020, saying she would be focusing on qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

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