As he approaches his seventh Paralympic appearance in Beijing next week, Yoshihiro Nitta is dreaming of capping the grand culmination of his career with a fourth cross-country gold medal."Just taking part isn't my final goal," the 41-year-old native of Okayama Prefecture said. "I want to prepare so that I will have no regrets at the starting line."Nitta lost his left forearm at the age of 3 in an accident with a combine harvester driven by his grandfather. That, however, did not stop him from taking up cross-country skiing in the third grade of elementary school, and the rest is history.Aft…READ FULL ARTICLE
