Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?Mat 9:12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

In 1964, the 18th Summer Olympic Games was held in Tokyo. However it killed a young Japanese marathon man eventually.

Kokichi Tsuburaya (1940 – 1968) was a Japanese athlete who competed mainly in the Marathon.

He competed for Japan in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, where he won the bronze medal when he was overtaken within the final 100 meters by Basil Heatley of the UK.

Shortly after the Tokyo Olympics, Kokichi suffered from an ongoing back problem, known as lumbago. On January 9, 1968, he committed suicide by slashing his wrist in his dormitoryroom where he had stayed during his training period for the Mexico City Olympics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dkichi_Tsuburaya

Before the marathon race in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the father of Kokichi Tsuburaya told his son not to look behind to check who was running behind and how much he was leading while running a race. In other word, his father told Tsuburaya to act like a man in competition. As Kokichi Tsuburaya so honestly followed this advice in the Olympics marathon race, he could not realize that the British runner was approaching so quickly. So, Tsuburaya was taken by a surprise when he was caught up with Heatley in the Olympics Stadium, so that he could not cope with the desperate situation. Tsuburaya ended the race in the third. But he felt so