In an interview with CNN, Lizi Tanaka said that she received a pair of new sports shoes from her family on her birthday. Later, her grandson, Eiji Tanaka, who was in her 60s, said that her grandmother wanted others to be inspired. When they saw such a positive lifestyle, they could understand that age was not an obstacle. In the pre-competition plan of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Lizi Tanaka's family will push her in a wheelchair for most of her 65,438+000 meters (about 328 feet), but the centenarian said that she decided to walk the last few steps before the torch was passed to the next runner.
The record holder of the oldest Olympic torchbearer in previous Olympic Games is Ida of Brazil. Aida Gemanque, who lit the torch at 16 Rio Summer Olympics. Table tennis player Alexander? Kaptar Kaptarenko lit the torch at the age of 10 1 at the 2065438 Winter Olympics in Sochi. At the age of 19, Lizi Tanaka married a rice cake shop owner and had four children with him. She worked in a family store until she was 63 years old, and experienced two world wars and Spanish flu. Although her grandson Eiji said, I don't remember her talking about many things before, she is far-sighted and likes to live in the present. ?
Surprisingly, Riko Tanaka is as old as the modern Olympic Games. This year's Olympic Games will be the 49th she has experienced. At present, she lives in a nursing home, usually gets up at 6 o'clock in the morning and likes to play Othello, a strategy board game. In the past 18 months, Tanaka's family has been trying to meet her, but they can't meet because of the coronavirus pneumonia-19 epidemic. Her family said that keeping curious and doing math problems are the secrets of her quick thinking and good health.