Pyeongchang Olympic medalists talk about, thanks to fans and new resolve Vol.4 【Japan Representative Reports - Speed Skating Competitors ~】
Reports from Japan representatives of the Pyeongchang Olympics were held at Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi, Tokyo, and medalists who gave courage and inspiration during Japan gathered in front of 5,000 fans gathered this day It was. This time, which will be the 4th time, we will deliver an interview of the speed skating team who got a total of 6 medals. Captain Nodaira Nao, as well as Miharu Takagi and Mr. Takagi Naka Takagi who have mass-produced medals by two, and Ayano Sato and Team Pursuit member Ayano Sakana and Ayako Kikuchi appear. The girls who gathered a lot of accomplishments talked about their feelings towards the medals they grasped over the suffering.
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2018/03/30
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Japan Pacific Olympic Games Japan Speed Skating team who got 3 gold medals, 2 gold medals, 1 bronze medals, totaling 6 medals, plus 9 prizes.
Far from taking the medals, we won a great leap forward from the 2014 Sochi Olympics, where the winning was only 4.
Why did Japan's speed skating world leap so far in four years?
The major factor is that in the summer of 2014 the Japan Skating Federation established a national team that operates throughout the year, crossing the barriers of its affiliation.
Kohei Nao studied in the Netherlands in the two seasons after the Sochi Olympics, but gathered other top players in Japan and aimed for the Pyeongchang Olympics in four years later.
It's not just about practicing gathering Japanese national team players.
Invited me as a coach for Johan David from the Speed Skating Dagger Dutch Country, and managed all the practice menus and physical condition of the players.
In addition, by incorporating efficient training based on blood tests and physical fitness figures, we succeeded in rapidly growing Miharu Takagi who had fallen behind in the Sochi Olympics and her older sister Takagi Nana Choi.
The skill as a coach was evaluated, and the coach updated the contract after the Pyeongchang Olympics. We will continue "Dutch style teaching system" that has led Japan to make a breakthrough in the future.
At the beginning of the interview at the athletes team was called Speed Skating Women's 500 meters, the first gold medal ever, and Naodaira Nao, who won silver medals at 1000 meters.
A player who was appointed captain of the Japanese team at the Winter Olympics was told that "I can not get a gold medal", but I finished goal with the Olympic new record of 500m of the game, and broke the jinx.
As Kodaira, who has driven the Japanese team as such a player and captain, Shuzo Matsuoka, head of cheering supporters of the Japanese national team, questioned the feelings of the tournament, answered with a bright smile a word.
Matsuoka: I also saw it on site, but the word from Mr. Kodaira was transmitted to the world. What was the most felt thing about this Olympics?
Xiao Ping: After all, I felt a connection with the world circle and the people who support us.
Matsuoka: I was most pleased that "I was able to trust myself from the bottom of my heart" especially at 500 m. I could believe in such an important scene, but what could have been there?
Xiao Ping: You saw everyone's smile.
Matsuoka: That's nice. When we took part in the festival, when we said "Delivery, Courage!", Mr. Kodaira talked "I got the courage" In what form did the courage come out through the competition What?
Xiao Ping: To me it is courage to prepare. So, I got the courage from everyone, so I was able to decide my mind at the game. Thank you very much.
Finally Mr. Matsuoka asked "Please deliver the courage to everyone in Japan this time," Odaira responded with a smile with a gold medal, "Deliver courage to everyone, courage!"
Next was called Miharu Takagi who won a gold medal with a bronze medal at 1000 m, a silver medal at 1500 m, and a parachute (a girls group overtake).
In the hands of the first multiple medals in the female individual event, at the same time achieving "medal full color complete" at one convention. This became the first achievement as the Japanese for the Winter Olympics.
In retrospect, the first time I participated in the Olympics was the 2010 Vancouver 2010 Olympics as a 15-year-old "Super Junior High School". It was the 23rd at 1500m in the production, the lowest among 35 players who finished at 1000m.
Four years later, the selection meeting of the Sochi Olympics who challenged to return borrowing. However, even the return to the stage of the dream did not come true.
"The regret of eight years ago or four years ago can only be cleared up by the result of the Olympics"
I imagined myself who would win in the stage of the Olympics and endured any hard menu.
And now I won the tournament with a medal of wish and proved that this 8 years was not wrong.
When listening to the thought so far, while talking about joy, he talked lightly like Ace.
Matsuoka: Miho is a person who does not say much as "game" or "I want to win", but this time I think that it was a competition that I could really win. Looking back now, how was this Olympics?
Takagi Mi: I think that it was a competition that I was able to keep on struggling to the very end.
Matsuoka: Was there any part that suffered to be scratched?
Takagi Mi:I agree. First of all, when I got to 5th place at 3000 m, the feeling of sliding did not fit my imagination. So, even switching my mind toward the next 1500 m, I continued to think "What to do" to the very end. However, after thinking too much, after exhausting 1500 m it was exhausted both mentally and physically. But, in challenging 1000 m, I thought after listening to your message, "I would like to try again one more time", I put my feelings back in order to stand up again. As the last team's purse was the medal I wanted to take the most, everyone kept on thinking "What to do" all the time. So, I think that I have been able to keep on running all the time in the part that arranges my body and mind throughout the whole moment.
Matsuoka: For Mi sail, I think that Olympics had many disgusting memories until I entered the contest. But what about now?
Takagi Mi: I think that it was a lot of painful to say that it was fun to say in a word. Even so, I saw a lot of your smile and I thought that I was able to do it myself, so I think that it was a very happy competition.
For Japanese fans, the word "happiness" may have been the most wanted words from her who had been suffering for eight years.
Although I can not decide to participate in the Beijing Olympics yet 4 years later, I will reveal my intention to continue working.
I believe in the efforts of the past eight years and the first girls' achievement achieved at this event, and from here onwards we will open a new path.
Next was Miho Takagi's older sister, Takagi Nanaaki, who grabbed the microphone.
In addition to the pursuit, he also won the mass start of a new event and won two gold medals for the first time in the winter Olympics as a Japanese girl.
A sister who was called "genius girl", Takagi Nana has been called "Miho's older sister".
As a result, the accomplishment that the older sister named two golds invited tears throughout Japan.
When asked about two golds that nobody could taste, Takagi greeted me with a smile and answered with a smile all the time.
Matsuoka: No, I will say something rude? Everyone, the achievement of Nana has been the most surprised in the competition right now! What? It is the first time a woman took two gold medals, including summer. Congratulations!
Takagi:Thank you!
Matsuoka: I made my older sister the first thing in history. Please tell us your impressions of now.
Takagi: To be honest I have not realized it yet, but I am really pleased that I got a gold medal at the mass start of a new event.
Matsuoka: What kind of things were you thinking at the end of the mass start?
Takagi: Before I pulled out, "I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to go!" I was really glad I could get out in the front (lol)
Matsuoka: But it was hard work to endure! What?
Takagi: While thinking myself when to leave, wait, wait, when you waited, I wonder if it was good.
Matsuoka: That gold medal should have been waiting forever. In fact, what kind of things do you think about taking two gold medals?
Takagi: I am really happy. Besides, a lot of people support me like this and I welcome him like this today as well, so I think that many gifts are gold medals.
Matsuoka: I was concerned about my knees when I was practicing and I think that I faced the game in a considerable pain. Where did that courage and power come from?
Takagi: From the time of the ceremony ceremony, they gave everyone courage, and this time I became my own power and looked to the game. I think that it is such a gold medal because a lot of people really supported me. Thank you very much!
And the fourth person who appeared in the 4 th person got a gold medal as a member of the Pursuit, Ayano Sato of the youngest team.
In the mass start that became a new event, he falls over in the form of getting involved in the fall of Canada at the first round. I could not stay in the top eight people who would be the conditions for the final stage, and I shed tears.
However, in the final of the Pursuit, he played with Takagi sisters and led the team to victory with breathtaking skating.
Matsuoka: As a member of the Pursuit, I think that I had surprised it through to the end. How do you look back on that final?
Sato: I was really nervous before the final and I was able to taste the tension that unique to the Olympics. Among them, there were some seniors who fought together, and I think that it was because I was supported by many people, I was able to overcome that tension.
Matsuoka:I see. What kind of scenery was the stage for the first time in the Olympics?
Sato: What I think now is a tournament that I could get a lot of good experience and learning, and I was able to absorb a lot. In a word, the first Olympics, "I got a very good experience." I think that it will exhaust into it.
And, in the last interview, Aya Kikuchi who also got a gold medal at the same parachute.
In support of the team as the oldest age, in the semifinals, instead of Sato players took up the Takagi sister "slide to rest".
Kikuchi, who went over the Olympics to overcome the injury of the foot. "I was able to stand here because everyone's activity was an inspiration," while responding to the interview while harbinging the thoughts of my friends.
Matsuoka: Kikuchi was saying that "I will become a shield" at a pachinko? When I participated in semifinals, what kind of thought did you slide?
Kikuchi: There was only so much I could do, so I slipped the feet of the two (Takagi sisters) as much as possible and slipped thinking that I could slide firmly in the final.
MatsuokaIt is the gold medal that I fought because I fought with one feeling. What did you think about the four years before coming here?
Kikuchi: Another day, a moment, an instant every moment, it was a four years full of everything, so when I took the gold medals ... I was impressed.
Matsuoka: What kind of feeling was the moment when you actually took a medal?
Kikuchi: I am already glad that my tears did not stop.
Matsuoka: It is a nice tear. Congratulations!
At the moment when I tried to conclude the interview of the speed skating team, Mr. Matsuoka turned the microphone again to Kodaira.
Matsuoka: Kodaira, please let me question a little more at the end. I think that there was considerable pressure as the captain this time, but the players of the speed skating were active so much, including yourself. What do you think is the biggest factor of medal rush?
Xiao Ping: I am a captain, but I think that each of the players was the best that they thought they were the leading characters.
Matsuoka: And a lot of embracing scenes with Korean players were flowing all over the world. It was the biggest rival, and the country was different from the best friend, the player who shared feelings. I think that is a sport. What did Kodaira himself wanted to tell through that scene?
Xiao Ping: In spite of the fact that sports is still communication without words, it is a sport that mutually enhances, respects, respects, and grows. I wish it would be nice to be told all over the world.
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▼ JOC - Japan Olympic Committee
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Far from taking the medals, we won a great leap forward from the 2014 Sochi Olympics, where the winning was only 4.
Why did Japan's speed skating world leap so far in four years?
The major factor is that in the summer of 2014 the Japan Skating Federation established a national team that operates throughout the year, crossing the barriers of its affiliation.
Kohei Nao studied in the Netherlands in the two seasons after the Sochi Olympics, but gathered other top players in Japan and aimed for the Pyeongchang Olympics in four years later.
It's not just about practicing gathering Japanese national team players.
Invited me as a coach for Johan David from the Speed Skating Dagger Dutch Country, and managed all the practice menus and physical condition of the players.
In addition, by incorporating efficient training based on blood tests and physical fitness figures, we succeeded in rapidly growing Miharu Takagi who had fallen behind in the Sochi Olympics and her older sister Takagi Nana Choi.
The skill as a coach was evaluated, and the coach updated the contract after the Pyeongchang Olympics. We will continue "Dutch style teaching system" that has led Japan to make a breakthrough in the future.
At the beginning of the interview at the athletes team was called Speed Skating Women's 500 meters, the first gold medal ever, and Naodaira Nao, who won silver medals at 1000 meters.
A player who was appointed captain of the Japanese team at the Winter Olympics was told that "I can not get a gold medal", but I finished goal with the Olympic new record of 500m of the game, and broke the jinx.
As Kodaira, who has driven the Japanese team as such a player and captain, Shuzo Matsuoka, head of cheering supporters of the Japanese national team, questioned the feelings of the tournament, answered with a bright smile a word.
Matsuoka: I also saw it on site, but the word from Mr. Kodaira was transmitted to the world. What was the most felt thing about this Olympics?
Xiao Ping: After all, I felt a connection with the world circle and the people who support us.
Matsuoka: I was most pleased that "I was able to trust myself from the bottom of my heart" especially at 500 m. I could believe in such an important scene, but what could have been there?
Xiao Ping: You saw everyone's smile.
Matsuoka: That's nice. When we took part in the festival, when we said "Delivery, Courage!", Mr. Kodaira talked "I got the courage" In what form did the courage come out through the competition What?
Xiao Ping: To me it is courage to prepare. So, I got the courage from everyone, so I was able to decide my mind at the game. Thank you very much.
Next was called Miharu Takagi who won a gold medal with a bronze medal at 1000 m, a silver medal at 1500 m, and a parachute (a girls group overtake).
In the hands of the first multiple medals in the female individual event, at the same time achieving "medal full color complete" at one convention. This became the first achievement as the Japanese for the Winter Olympics.
In retrospect, the first time I participated in the Olympics was the 2010 Vancouver 2010 Olympics as a 15-year-old "Super Junior High School". It was the 23rd at 1500m in the production, the lowest among 35 players who finished at 1000m.
Four years later, the selection meeting of the Sochi Olympics who challenged to return borrowing. However, even the return to the stage of the dream did not come true.
"The regret of eight years ago or four years ago can only be cleared up by the result of the Olympics"
I imagined myself who would win in the stage of the Olympics and endured any hard menu.
And now I won the tournament with a medal of wish and proved that this 8 years was not wrong.
When listening to the thought so far, while talking about joy, he talked lightly like Ace.
Matsuoka: Miho is a person who does not say much as "game" or "I want to win", but this time I think that it was a competition that I could really win. Looking back now, how was this Olympics?
Takagi Mi: I think that it was a competition that I was able to keep on struggling to the very end.
Matsuoka: Was there any part that suffered to be scratched?
Takagi Mi:I agree. First of all, when I got to 5th place at 3000 m, the feeling of sliding did not fit my imagination. So, even switching my mind toward the next 1500 m, I continued to think "What to do" to the very end. However, after thinking too much, after exhausting 1500 m it was exhausted both mentally and physically. But, in challenging 1000 m, I thought after listening to your message, "I would like to try again one more time", I put my feelings back in order to stand up again. As the last team's purse was the medal I wanted to take the most, everyone kept on thinking "What to do" all the time. So, I think that I have been able to keep on running all the time in the part that arranges my body and mind throughout the whole moment.
Matsuoka: For Mi sail, I think that Olympics had many disgusting memories until I entered the contest. But what about now?
Takagi Mi: I think that it was a lot of painful to say that it was fun to say in a word. Even so, I saw a lot of your smile and I thought that I was able to do it myself, so I think that it was a very happy competition.
For Japanese fans, the word "happiness" may have been the most wanted words from her who had been suffering for eight years.
Although I can not decide to participate in the Beijing Olympics yet 4 years later, I will reveal my intention to continue working.
I believe in the efforts of the past eight years and the first girls' achievement achieved at this event, and from here onwards we will open a new path.
Next was Miho Takagi's older sister, Takagi Nanaaki, who grabbed the microphone.
In addition to the pursuit, he also won the mass start of a new event and won two gold medals for the first time in the winter Olympics as a Japanese girl.
A sister who was called "genius girl", Takagi Nana has been called "Miho's older sister".
As a result, the accomplishment that the older sister named two golds invited tears throughout Japan.
When asked about two golds that nobody could taste, Takagi greeted me with a smile and answered with a smile all the time.
Matsuoka: No, I will say something rude? Everyone, the achievement of Nana has been the most surprised in the competition right now! What? It is the first time a woman took two gold medals, including summer. Congratulations!
Takagi:Thank you!
Matsuoka: I made my older sister the first thing in history. Please tell us your impressions of now.
Takagi: To be honest I have not realized it yet, but I am really pleased that I got a gold medal at the mass start of a new event.
Matsuoka: What kind of things were you thinking at the end of the mass start?
Takagi: Before I pulled out, "I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to go!" I was really glad I could get out in the front (lol)
Matsuoka: But it was hard work to endure! What?
Takagi: While thinking myself when to leave, wait, wait, when you waited, I wonder if it was good.
Matsuoka: That gold medal should have been waiting forever. In fact, what kind of things do you think about taking two gold medals?
Takagi: I am really happy. Besides, a lot of people support me like this and I welcome him like this today as well, so I think that many gifts are gold medals.
Matsuoka: I was concerned about my knees when I was practicing and I think that I faced the game in a considerable pain. Where did that courage and power come from?
Takagi: From the time of the ceremony ceremony, they gave everyone courage, and this time I became my own power and looked to the game. I think that it is such a gold medal because a lot of people really supported me. Thank you very much!
And the fourth person who appeared in the 4 th person got a gold medal as a member of the Pursuit, Ayano Sato of the youngest team.
In the mass start that became a new event, he falls over in the form of getting involved in the fall of Canada at the first round. I could not stay in the top eight people who would be the conditions for the final stage, and I shed tears.
However, in the final of the Pursuit, he played with Takagi sisters and led the team to victory with breathtaking skating.
Matsuoka: As a member of the Pursuit, I think that I had surprised it through to the end. How do you look back on that final?
Sato: I was really nervous before the final and I was able to taste the tension that unique to the Olympics. Among them, there were some seniors who fought together, and I think that it was because I was supported by many people, I was able to overcome that tension.
Matsuoka:I see. What kind of scenery was the stage for the first time in the Olympics?
Sato: What I think now is a tournament that I could get a lot of good experience and learning, and I was able to absorb a lot. In a word, the first Olympics, "I got a very good experience." I think that it will exhaust into it.
And, in the last interview, Aya Kikuchi who also got a gold medal at the same parachute.
In support of the team as the oldest age, in the semifinals, instead of Sato players took up the Takagi sister "slide to rest".
Kikuchi, who went over the Olympics to overcome the injury of the foot. "I was able to stand here because everyone's activity was an inspiration," while responding to the interview while harbinging the thoughts of my friends.
Matsuoka: Kikuchi was saying that "I will become a shield" at a pachinko? When I participated in semifinals, what kind of thought did you slide?
Kikuchi: There was only so much I could do, so I slipped the feet of the two (Takagi sisters) as much as possible and slipped thinking that I could slide firmly in the final.
MatsuokaIt is the gold medal that I fought because I fought with one feeling. What did you think about the four years before coming here?
Kikuchi: Another day, a moment, an instant every moment, it was a four years full of everything, so when I took the gold medals ... I was impressed.
Matsuoka: What kind of feeling was the moment when you actually took a medal?
Kikuchi: I am already glad that my tears did not stop.
Matsuoka: It is a nice tear. Congratulations!
At the moment when I tried to conclude the interview of the speed skating team, Mr. Matsuoka turned the microphone again to Kodaira.
Matsuoka: Kodaira, please let me question a little more at the end. I think that there was considerable pressure as the captain this time, but the players of the speed skating were active so much, including yourself. What do you think is the biggest factor of medal rush?
Xiao Ping: I am a captain, but I think that each of the players was the best that they thought they were the leading characters.
Matsuoka: And a lot of embracing scenes with Korean players were flowing all over the world. It was the biggest rival, and the country was different from the best friend, the player who shared feelings. I think that is a sport. What did Kodaira himself wanted to tell through that scene?
Xiao Ping: In spite of the fact that sports is still communication without words, it is a sport that mutually enhances, respects, respects, and grows. I wish it would be nice to be told all over the world.
<Vol 5 is this place>
▼ JOC - Japan Olympic Committee
https://www.joc.or.jp/
