Daeda turned 89 in November and has held the Guinness World Record for the oldest person to complete a triathlon-this is a tough race that includes swimming 3.86 kilometers, cycling 180.25 kilometers and running 42.2 kilometers marathon .
As a three-time champion of the competition in the same age group, he has invested so much in sports that he recorded shots of athletes at the Olympics and analyzed their leg movements and postures by watching videos.
This Olympics is the second time Inada has watched the Olympics in Tokyo. As early as 1964, when Tokyo hosted the Olympics for the first time, he was a reporter for the public broadcaster NHK.
But the atmosphere at the time was completely different, he said.
These Olympics were Japan’s victory in some respects, demonstrating technological miracles such as the Shinkansen bullet train.
“No one doesn’t watch the Olympics,” he said, admitting that he even skipped work to catch it.
He said people are staring at color TVs in offices, city halls and electronics stores, because these TVs are still rare in many households.
