Pyeongchang Olympic medalists talk about, thanks to fans and new resolve Vol.2 [Japan Rep. Repatriation Report - Snowboard player edition ~]
A reporting party by Japanese delegation from the Pyeongchang Olympics held at Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi, Tokyo. The medalists who excited Japan hotly talked about the feelings for the Olympics and appreciation to the fans before the general audience about 5000 people. In this Vol. 2, we will deliver an interview of the snowboard fighters team including Hayano Hirano who won two consecutive silver medals with a male half pipe.
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2018/03/12
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Snowboard men's half-pipe final held on February 14th on the 6th day of the Pyeongchang Olympics. Ayumu Hirano who won the silver medal in the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games won a high score of 95.25 points by consecutively deciding four rotations of Olympic's first "Double Cork 1440" in the second Olympic history, but in the last three He gave back 97.75 "absolute champion" Sean White.
However, as Hirano himself said, "It was a lot of fun and it was the biggest event ever," it was a tournament where we have all the power we have now.
The fierce fight between these two would definitely have become the highest level battle of Olympic snowboard history.
Hirano who showed such a high level performance, was never a smooth path up to here.
In the competition of March last year, he challenged "Double Cork 1440" also toppled over, banging the abdomen enough to damage the liver in addition to injury to the medial side ligament of the left knee. Players lost serious injuries that threaten their lives, and about two months of rehabilitation life continued.
If you leave the competition for such a long time, it will be difficult to reach the Olympics of the following year with the best condition.
Still Hirano repeatedly rehabilitated and resumed practicing in May. It took me five months to completely eliminate the pain in the left knee after injury.
And gradually from the opening season of the season in September, the actual warfare gradually fought, in the World Cup of December, after four years of injury succeeded, winning the first time. In addition, the "Winter X Game" in January 2018, which is the Olympic season, showed evolution of more than that, such as making successive techniques of the first four rotations ever successful, rather than a complete resurgence.
Although it did not come to be at the top of the podium, the silver medal overcoming the major injury should have become a medal full of various feelings more heavily than four years ago.
Mr. Shozo Matsuoka, head of cheering supporters of the Japanese national team, asked his feelings for such an Olympics, answering with a slow tone of voice like Hirano players.
Matsuoka: I saw the half pipe finals, but there is a regret in the result of the silver medal, but I think that it was really amazing to have the best performance. How is it when you look back on the Olympics this time?
Plain: 2 I got a medal for 2 consecutive tournaments, so I think that it was good to have practiced in such a part so far.
Matsuoka: However, I think that it is rude, Mr. Yamato could hardly speak in an interview four years ago. Based on that, I think that it's been 4 years as a great athlete and a single human being. How do you think yourself has changed through the Olympics twice?
Plain: Since the last Olympics, I think that I could change myself by challenging something I really do not want to do and getting over it. However, in the past four years, there were many more bad things than fun things.
Matsuoka: Did you have a lot of bad things? Hey, did you hear the children! What? To make a dream come true it 's no use just fun. After all, Mr. Ayumu's words that have been struggling to come so far will give you the courage. In the end, can you give a word to those who are pursuing various dreams?
Plain:Yes. I do not have to be snowboarding, I do not have to be sports, but I'd like each one to have a big target. Age does not matter to efforts towards dreams. So, I want to have each person have dreams and goals, that kind of feeling.
It was a word because it was pressure from the surroundings as a result of winning a silver medal at the age of 15, and Hirano who overcame a major injury.
Hirano proved that he can always overcome anxiety and fear caused by injuries by setting dreams and goals all the time.
What kind of growth will you show in the next 4 years?
Subsequently, I answered the interview, the new type snowboard girl big aircraft adopted from the Olympics this time Iwakabi Reikura. The first Olympic games challenged by the youngest girls at the age of 16 at this Japanese team were 147.50 points and a fourth place finish to the medals.
After the competition Iwabuchi capped the lip with "I am full of regret feelings", but once again asking about the Olympics this time, I was already switching my mind, looking at four years later.
Matsuoka: Mr. Reika's name also has the word "easy", but I was talking about having fun playing at the competition. How did you actually slide at the Olympics?
Iwabuchi: After all I think that the result is also important, but I think that I was glad because I could really enjoy the stage of the Olympics before that.
Matsuoka: Mr. Reika enjoyed the Olympics and what did you feel about the stage of the Olympics?
Iwabuchi: What I felt most was that the level was much higher than the competition I've played so far. As a harvest, I think that it was good that you brought it close to your own limit by thinking that "I have to follow myself" to that high level game.
Matsuoka: Did you get anything by bringing it close to the limit?
Iwabuchi: By experiencing the Olympics, I could find many things I wanted to do. In the future, I would like to be able to achieve the findings one by one.
Matsuoka: Mr. Reika is young at the age of sixteen, but please give me a word to the same young generation that you want me to pursue my dreams.
Iwabuchi:Yes. There are lots of fun things if you find something in your dreams and work hard towards it, I hope that you all have a challenge.▼ JOC - Japan Olympic Committee
https://www.joc.or.jp/
Snowboard men's half-pipe final held on February 14th on the 6th day of the Pyeongchang Olympics. Ayumu Hirano who won the silver medal in the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games won a high score of 95.25 points by consecutively deciding four rotations of Olympic's first "Double Cork 1440" in the second Olympic history, but in the last three He gave back 97.75 "absolute champion" Sean White.
However, as Hirano himself said, "It was a lot of fun and it was the biggest event ever," it was a tournament where we have all the power we have now.
The fierce fight between these two would definitely have become the highest level battle of Olympic snowboard history.
Hirano who showed such a high level performance, was never a smooth path up to here.
In the competition of March last year, he challenged "Double Cork 1440" also toppled over, banging the abdomen enough to damage the liver in addition to injury to the medial side ligament of the left knee. Players lost serious injuries that threaten their lives, and about two months of rehabilitation life continued.
If you leave the competition for such a long time, it will be difficult to reach the Olympics of the following year with the best condition.
Still Hirano repeatedly rehabilitated and resumed practicing in May. It took me five months to completely eliminate the pain in the left knee after injury.
And gradually from the opening season of the season in September, the actual warfare gradually fought, in the World Cup of December, after four years of injury succeeded, winning the first time. In addition, the "Winter X Game" in January 2018, which is the Olympic season, showed evolution of more than that, such as making successive techniques of the first four rotations ever successful, rather than a complete resurgence.
Although it did not come to be at the top of the podium, the silver medal overcoming the major injury should have become a medal full of various feelings more heavily than four years ago.
Mr. Shozo Matsuoka, head of cheering supporters of the Japanese national team, asked his feelings for such an Olympics, answering with a slow tone of voice like Hirano players.
Matsuoka: I saw the half pipe finals, but there is a regret in the result of the silver medal, but I think that it was really amazing to have the best performance. How is it when you look back on the Olympics this time?
Plain: 2 I got a medal for 2 consecutive tournaments, so I think that it was good to have practiced in such a part so far.
Matsuoka: However, I think that it is rude, Mr. Yamato could hardly speak in an interview four years ago. Based on that, I think that it's been 4 years as a great athlete and a single human being. How do you think yourself has changed through the Olympics twice?
Plain: Since the last Olympics, I think that I could change myself by challenging something I really do not want to do and getting over it. However, in the past four years, there were many more bad things than fun things.
Matsuoka: Did you have a lot of bad things? Hey, did you hear the children! What? To make a dream come true it 's no use just fun. After all, Mr. Ayumu's words that have been struggling to come so far will give you the courage. In the end, can you give a word to those who are pursuing various dreams?
Plain:Yes. I do not have to be snowboarding, I do not have to be sports, but I'd like each one to have a big target. Age does not matter to efforts towards dreams. So, I want to have each person have dreams and goals, that kind of feeling.
It was a word because it was pressure from the surroundings as a result of winning a silver medal at the age of 15, and Hirano who overcame a major injury.
Hirano proved that he can always overcome anxiety and fear caused by injuries by setting dreams and goals all the time.
What kind of growth will you show in the next 4 years?
Subsequently, I answered the interview, the new type snowboard girl big aircraft adopted from the Olympics this time Iwakabi Reikura. The first Olympic games challenged by the youngest girls at the age of 16 at this Japanese team were 147.50 points and a fourth place finish to the medals.
After the competition Iwabuchi capped the lip with "I am full of regret feelings", but once again asking about the Olympics this time, I was already switching my mind, looking at four years later.
Matsuoka: Mr. Reika's name also has the word "easy", but I was talking about having fun playing at the competition. How did you actually slide at the Olympics?
Iwabuchi: After all I think that the result is also important, but I think that I was glad because I could really enjoy the stage of the Olympics before that.
Matsuoka: Mr. Reika enjoyed the Olympics and what did you feel about the stage of the Olympics?
Iwabuchi: What I felt most was that the level was much higher than the competition I've played so far. As a harvest, I think that it was good that you brought it close to your own limit by thinking that "I have to follow myself" to that high level game.
Matsuoka: Did you get anything by bringing it close to the limit?
Iwabuchi: By experiencing the Olympics, I could find many things I wanted to do. In the future, I would like to be able to achieve the findings one by one.
Matsuoka: Mr. Reika is young at the age of sixteen, but please give me a word to the same young generation that you want me to pursue my dreams.
Iwabuchi:Yes. There are lots of fun things if you find something in your dreams and work hard towards it, I hope that you all have a challenge.▼ JOC - Japan Olympic Committee
https://www.joc.or.jp/
