<figure id="attachment_373081" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-373081" style="width: 1637px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b36375d2"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/05/f7af1b66a0e896c864080e36804370af.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-373081" class="wp-caption-text">He appears to be thicker around the arms and wider in the back than before. He seems to be getting back to the body he had before he developed leukemia.</figcaption></figure>
<p> Her back, which is leading the Japanese swimming world, looks bigger than ever.</p>
<p> Rikako Ikee, 23, won the 50m butterfly and 100m butterfly at the Sydney Open, held May 9-11 at the Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Ikee moved her training base to Australia last fall to improve her body and swim harder, and her upper body, tanned and bigger than at the Olympic trials in March, looks really muscular. This is a testament to the intensity of the training. The time of 57.63 seconds in the 100m butterfly, which he will represent Japan in the Paris Olympics, was a little short of this season&#8217;s best time of 57.03 seconds, but his finish is on track. If she can further strengthen her body before the Olympics, she should be able to win a medal,&#8221; said a member of the Japan Swimming Federation.</span></p>
<p> The queen&#8217;s rapid progress has begun.</p>
<figure id="attachment_373080" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-373080" style="width: 2500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b7f1b208"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/05/cceefd9b1d8272b2a7f70f1f6309d52f.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-373080" class="wp-caption-text"> She won the 100m butterfly on the 11th and smiled. After all, a gold medal suits Ikee well.</figcaption></figure>
<p> From the May 31, 2024 issue of &#8220;FRIDAY</p>
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