YES! The awaited first medal to Japan! And it's GOLD! Woohoo!!
And you know what!? She's the first Asian to win a gold medal in figure skating in the Olympics.Isn't it great?
The women's figure skating has been a hot topic in Japan even before the Olympics started. One of Japan's star hope Mao Asada, the winner of 2005 World Figure Skating Junior Championships, couldn't come to Torino cuz she was too young and the Japan Figure Skating Association didn't fuss at all about it. The scramble of the Olympics qualification was a dead-heat till the very end.
But the news of gold medal was sooo big that the previous problems all seem to be nothing. A huge applaud to Shizuka Arakawa!!
I wrote some days ago about the braodcasting of the Olympics in Japan, kinda complained about it a bit, but some TV commentator later said that in the States you don't get to see performances of athletes from other countries. Although, because it was a defense against the harsh criticisms we hear quite a lot these days, so I don't know how reliable the information is... is it true? Do they only show American athletes in the States?
In Japan, all the news we get about Ichiro is how great he is, how wonderful he performed in today's game, what his scores are so far so on so forth, but not many news tell that the Mariners are actually doing pretty poorly and in the end you don't get to know which team is in the first place.
Is it like that?
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