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#HakoneEkiden #Ekiden #Athletics #KokugakuinUniversity #Kokugakuin #HirabayashiKiyosumi #MaedaYasuhiro #KomazawaUniversity [Subscribe to the channel here] / @sanspo A send-off party and press conference for Kokugakuin University, which is aiming for its first victory and the sixth school in history to win the triple crown at the 101st Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip College Ekiden on January 2nd and 3rd next year, was held on the 13th at the Shibuya Campus in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. This year, they will win the Izumo Ekiden in October and the All-Japan University Ekiden in November. Coach Maeda Yasuhiro, who led the team to their first Hakone victory as captain in 2000 while still a student at Komazawa University, shared some behind-the-scenes stories about ace Hirabayashi Kiyosumi (4th year). He revealed that he had planned to visit the university's dormitory, saying, "He may have been pulled along by (Komazawa University's) Oyagi-san."