Speed Racer

Photographer

Hiroki Fukui

Category

COVID-19 Related Photography - Sports

Company

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2022

Country / Region:

Japan

"Keirin" is track cycling and one of public competitions in Japan, which is now one of Olympic events since Sydney Olympic in 2000. Keirin's charm is exciting race of atheletes' closest approach each other for getting the position with speeds exceeding 70 km/h. On the other hand atheletes' bicycles crash with each other and they fall down from the bicycles, which instant mistakes sometimes lead Life-threatening severe incidents.