Paralympics: Snowboarding, curling gold prospects named Japan flagbearers

Gold medal hopefuls in snowboarding and wheelchair curling will be Japan's flagbearers at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Paralympics.The country's Paralympic Committee named Aki Ogawa, one half of Japan's mixed doubles wheelchair curling team, and para snowboarder Junta Kosuda as the flagbearers while announcing the first 40 members of its delegation on Friday.Both have won world championships in the run-up to the March 6-15 games in northern Italy."I feel both the joy and the weight of carrying the Japanese flag," Ogawa said, noting it has been some time since her last Paralympic appearance in Van…READ FULL ARTICLE