Olympics-Swimming-For leukaemia survivor Ikee, just swimming at the Games is a win

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 diagnosis."I've had many times where I haven't been able to eat for three days or more. But I won't give up.

By the age of eight she was taking part in national swim meets and at 15 she broke records at the World Junior Championships. A year later, she swam in seven events at the 2016 Rio Olympics but did not medal.In 2018 she really hit her stride, winning six gold medals at the Asian Games and taking two more silvers in relays, becoming the first woman to be named Most Valuable Player at the event.

After leaving hospital in December that year, Ikee switched her Olympic hopes to Paris 2024, but the novel coronavirus pandemic changed things.

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