Victory in Vancouver

Mami Sato, Japan Paralympic long jump athlete, gave me her permission to copy her Japanese language blog as she writes about the Winter Paralympic athetes got together with supporters for a pep rally/send off.

Mami wrote:

Last night I went to the ceremonies to send off the Vancouver Para-athletes. I'll report as soon as I can, but couldn't find time to write details today. I'll do it as quickly as I can.

First off, I'll post some photos to let you feel the atmosphere. Many para-athletes and representatives of the media were there. I was able to give my speech without any glaring errors (whew). Come back for more tomorrow, I hope.