Wrestler fighting to emerge from accomplished mother's shadow

When your mother is a former two-time world wrestling champion and you decide to follow her path, painfully high expectations are unavoidable.Such is the predicament of Japan's Taishi Narikuni as he deals with the pressure to equal or better the success his mother Akiko achieved with four world championship medals, including back-to-back 65-kilogram golds in 1990 and 1991 and five national championships."I want to become a world champion, too," Narikuni said.In April, the 24-year-old came from behind to win the men's 70kg freestyle, a non-Olympic weight class, at the 2022 Asian Wrestling Ch…READ FULL ARTICLE