When 3x3 basketball¡¯s inclusion in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was announced, longtime proponent Tomoya Ochiai was beside himself.
At the same time, he wondered if the sport¡¯s Olympic inclusion was legitimate.
¡°When I first started playing, we would be playing on the concrete, sometimes in the pouring rain,¡± Ochiai said after the Japan men¡¯s national 3x3 team training camp at Tokyo¡¯s National Training Center on Wednesday. ¡°I was thinking, ¡®Is something like this really going to be an Olympic sport?¡¯¡±
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