http://kyushu.yomiuri.co.jp/news-spe/20090507-606401/news/20121212-OYS1T00296.htm translated and edited by Brett Larner If you ask Taiga Ito (26, Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) who he is targeting, he immediately brings up Arata Fujiwara (Miki House) and Kentaro Nakamoto (Team Sagawa Express). It's not just that he respects them as his former senior teammates at Takushoku University, but something more. Having missed the London team himself, Ito views the two Olympians as his rivals. "I don't just want to be like them, I want to beat them," he says. With that state of mind Ito will make a return to the marathon on the start line of Sunday's Hofu Yomiuri Marathon . As a general division entrant in Hofu in 2010 Ito took 2nd in 2:15:42, the top Japanese man behind winner Serod Batochir (Mongolia). The following July he ran his best of 2:13:16 abroad at Australia's Gold Coast Marathon, taking 4th. But despite making straightforward pro...
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