PHOTOS: Hiromi Miyake and Japan’s Olympic family
September 10, 2013
In this Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 photo, Japanese weightlifter Hiromi Miyake, silver medalist in the London Olympic women's 48kg event, lifts weight during her training at one of Tokyo's leading training centers. The Olympics are in Miyake's blood, a heritage that stretches back to the 1960s, when her uncle won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games and her father won bronze in Mexico City in 1968. With the Olympics coming to Tokyo in 2020, she hopes that will inspire the next generation of Japanese athletes. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) ( Japan Olympic Family Photo Essay )
FILE - In this July 28, 2012 file photo, Japanese weightlifter Hiromi Miyake competes on her way to winning the silver medal in the women's 48kg weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympic in London. The Olympics are in Miyake's blood, a heritage that stretches back to the 1960s, when her uncle won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games and her father won bronze in Mexico City in 1968. With the Olympics coming to Tokyo in 2020, she hopes that will inspire the next generation of Japanese athletes. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File) ( Japan Olympic Family Photo Essay )
In this Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 photo, Japanese weightlifter Hiromi Miyake, silver medalist in the London Olympic women's 48kg event, warms up before her training at one of Tokyo's leading training centers. The Olympics are in Hiromi Miyake's blood, a heritage that stretches back to the 1960s, when her uncle won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games and her father won bronze in Mexico City in 1968. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) ( Japan Olympic Family Photo Essay )
In this Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 photo, Japanese weightlifter Hiromi Miyake, silver medalist in the London Olympic women's 48kg event, warms up before her training at one of Tokyo's leading training centers. The Olympics are in Miyake's blood, a heritage that stretches back to the 1960s, when her uncle won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games and her father won bronze in Mexico City in 1968. With the Olympics coming to Tokyo in 2020, she hopes that will inspire the next generation of Japanese athletes. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) ( APTOPIX Japan Olympic Family Photo Essay )
In this Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 photo, Japanese weightlifter Hiromi Miyake, left, silver medalist in the London Olympic women's 48kg event, sits on a machine to warm up for muscle and body balance before her training at one of Tokyo's leading training centers. The Olympics are in Miyake's blood, a heritage that stretches back to the 1960s, when her uncle won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games and her father won bronze in Mexico City in 1968. With the Olympics coming to Tokyo in 2020, she hopes that will inspire the next generation of Japanese athletes. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) ( Japan Olympic Family Photo Essay )
In this Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 photo, Japanese weightlifter Hiromi Miyake, silver medalist in the London Olympic women's 48kg event, warms up before her training at one of Tokyo's leading training centers as her father and women's national team head coach Yoshiyuki Miyake looks on. The Olympics are in Hiromi Miyake's blood, a heritage that stretches back to the 1960s, when her uncle won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games and her father won bronze in Mexico City in 1968. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) ( Japan Olympic Family Photo Essay )
In this Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 photo, Japanese weightlifter Hiromi Miyake, silver medalist in the London Olympic women's 48kg event, sits during her interview with the Associated Press at her training gym in Tokyo. The Olympics are in Miyake's blood, a heritage that stretches back to the 1960s, when her uncle won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games and her father won bronze in Mexico City in 1968. With the Olympics coming to Tokyo in 2020, she hopes that will inspire the next generation of Japanese athletes. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) ( Japan Olympic Family Photo Essay )
In this Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 photo, Japanese weightlifter Hiromi Miyake, silver medalist in the London Olympic women's 48kg event, squats on a machine to warm up for muscle and body balance before her training at one of Tokyo's leading training centers. The Olympics are in Miyake's blood, a heritage that stretches back to the 1960s, when her uncle won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games and her father won bronze in Mexico City in 1968. With the Olympics coming to Tokyo in 2020, she hopes that will inspire the next generation of Japanese athletes. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) ( Japan Olympic Family Photo Essay )
In this Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 photo, Japanese weightlifter Hiromi Miyake, silver medalist in the London Olympic women's 48kg event, sits at a training gym during her interview with the Associated Press in Tokyo. The Olympics are in Miyake's blood, a heritage that stretches back to the 1960s, when her uncle won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games and her father won bronze in Mexico City in 1968. With the Olympics coming to Tokyo in 2020, she hopes that will inspire the next generation of Japanese athletes. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) ( Japan Olympic Family Photo Essay )
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