Just a year after giving birth and only months after returning to competition, Japan's Uran Sawada competed in the women's long jump T12 event for athletes with visual impairments at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games on Friday.The 35-year-old rejoined the national team with support from the government-backed Japan Institute of Sports Sciences, which began assisting her during her pregnancy.Sawada, who has retinitis pigmentosa, finished fifth at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021."I thought that once I gave birth, my performance would decline and I would retire from the sport," she said.Despite t…READ FULL ARTICLE
