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Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee does not really expect to win gold in the two events she will race in at the Tokyo Games but that does not matter. After surviving leukaemia, just being on Japan’s Olympic team at a home Games is a victory in itself. Ikee, 21, was diagnosed with leukaemia in February 2019 and while her treatment in hospital was far tougher than she ever imagined she was determined not to let it defeat her. “This is dozens of times, hundreds of times, thousands of times harder than I thought,” she wrote on Twitter a month after her...
