Medals4Mettle Illinois (Central & Chicago) will receive approximately 100 medals from Japan later this year. Many of the medals will be gifted by finishers of the Osaka Ultra 100k/70k event on May 23, 2011. Yoshiko Jo, M4M Shonan Yuru Yuru Liason, will be collecting the medals and bringing them back to the States upon her return in August. "Donating medals to Illinois will be a token for international exchange" writes Yoshiko, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate.
Although written in Japanese, pictures say a thousand words so take a moment to check-out this Japanese running blog which will encourage marathon finishers to gift their medals to M4M:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/dorara0822/archives/51867628.html
"M4M Illinois is honored to receive these international gifts, especially in the wake of the devastating tsunami and everything our Japanese friends have endured this year" said Scott Dahl, M4M Central Illinois.
Watch for a M4M Illinois/Japan Chapter Day later this year to commemorate the presentation of the Osaka Ultra/Japanese medals.
