Seventy-year-old Japanese Dressage Rider Qualifies for Olympics

AP is reporting that Hiroshi Hoketsu, age 70, has received qualifying scores for Olympic selection in dressage at a show last weekend.  

If he competes in 2012, he will be the oldest Japanese athlete to compete in the Olympics, breaking his own record set in Hong Kong in 2008.  

The oldest Olympic competitor was 72 years old;  Oscar Swahn, from Sweden, won a medal in shooting in 1920.

For more information on Hoketsu's story check news.yahoo.com/ride-japanese-equestrian.

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