Yuki Kurihara will become Japan\u2019s youngest competitor in Asian Games history next month and the 11-year-old esports whizz kid wants to be the competition\u2019s youngest ever medallist too.<\/p>\n
The bespectacled primary school student joined his Japan teammates this week for an inauguration ceremony ahead of their home Games, which take place in Nagoya and the wider Aichi area from September 19 to October 4.<\/p>\n
Kurihara will compete in esports event Puyo Puyo Champions, a puzzle game where players try to clear their screen of coloured blobs by lining them up and popping them.<\/p>\n
He is aiming to outshine a previous child medallist in Indonesia\u2019s Bunga Nyimas, who won bronze in women\u2019s skateboarding aged 12 in Jakarta in 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to win so that I can bring a gold medal back for Team Japan,\u201d Kurihara said.<\/p>\n
The Asian Games, which were first contested in 1951, have in recent editions witnessed numerous school-age athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuki Kurihara will become Japan\u2019s youngest competitor in Asian Games history next month and the 11-year-old esports whizz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[182824,86429,267446,1657,267445,59201,2938,85,1445,46,75170,1437,86428,2593,267447,105,267448],"class_list":["post-591265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aichi","tag-asian-games","tag-bunga-nyimas","tag-china","tag-cui-chenxi","tag-esports","tag-hangzhou","tag-il","tag-indonesia","tag-israel","tag-jakarta","tag-japan","tag-nagoya","tag-philippines","tag-puyo-puyo","tag-sports","tag-yuki-kurihara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}