When Japan won the bid to host the 2020 Summer Games in 2013, retired top fencer Kenichi Chida was determined to find some role to play, having been one of the "phantom athletes" who never made it to the boycotted 1980 games in Moscow.Born in the northeastern coastal city of Kesennuma, where more than 1,100 people perished in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Chida was penciled in to bear the Olympic torch in his hometown as one of 65 runners to tour Miyagi Prefecture in June, ending what would have been a 40-year wait for an "Olympics appearance."But four days after the sacred flame l…READ FULL ARTICLE
