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[NEWSIS exclusive] Japan’s figure skating second in command Shoma Uno ‘won the silver medal after eating his mom’s homemade cooking in a hotel’

lynnneposts:

Before he won the silver medal, Shoma Uno was found to have left the olympic village to stay in a hotel. 

Our coverage from the 21st shows that Shoma stayed at this hotel for approximately 15 days, from the 1st of February when the Japanese athletes arrived at the olympic village till after he won the silver medal. 

According to the hotel, Shoma’s mother arrived at the hotel earlier than him in order to take care of him. 

She paid special attention to her son’s three meals. Shoma is known to like meat. For this reason, Shoma’s mother strongly asked the hotel for permission to cook in their room during the stay. 

Hotel policies do not allow cooking in the rooms with utensils.

A hotel official said, “Uno’s mother strongly requested that she cook for her son so we provided her with the environment, allowing her to use the kitchen as well as the cooking utensils.”

The official added, “Shoma’s mother loves his child dearly. Maybe because of his mother’s dedication, Shoma won the silver medal at the Olympics after eating her cooking.” “It is also a happy occasion for our hotel as well.”

On the other hand, the olympic village prepares 15,000 servings each day for no cost. However, the Japanese athletes are not eating at the village. They are eating all their meals at their exclusive restaurant which is funded by a famous food company in Japan.

An official from TV Tokyo’s olympic coverage team said that the Japanese athletes eating their meals exclusively prepared by a company from their home country does not have a direct relationship with the norovirus.

The hotel also stated that “they [shoma and his mother] didn’t come to the hotel because of the virus. [shoma] wanted to stay with his mother.”

shoma-uno:

3.18.2018 HEROS feature on Shoma. Partial translation by @suzumoriyuiko.

(Feb 23, 6 days after the Olympics FS)

Shoma: “Once I get a medal, I don’t want to look at it after.”

Narration explains that he just moves on right away to the next step because competitions are just a chance to improve.

Shoma’s GOE at the Olympics was about 13 points lower than Yuzuru’s.

“The degree of perfection of my jumps are totally different (from Hanyu’s). All I can do is land them. That’s what I’m lacking.”

Shoma started practicing right after he returned to Japan in order to prepare for Worlds and improve his jumps. “It’s not that I can’t land (good/high-quality) jumps. I can land one good jump in a few. I have to do well on 8 jumps (in competition) and that, in the tense atmosphere of a competition. I can’t just land one pretty jump in dozens.”

Narration says that he is going into Worlds as a competitor that will have others running after him (ie. he is higher in level), but Shoma says “It’s not that I won’t think of the pressure about winning, I have to get over that pressure to advance. I want to skate well even with the pressure.”

If he could have one wish come true with a dragon ball, what would it be? Shoma: “But I don’t really think I need that. I don’t think I’d be happy if a wish came true just randomly, I think sports are fun because you work hard in order to gain something.”

“Maybe time. Then maybe I’d have more time to game.”

(Source: https://www.dailymotion.com/)

justmeonline:

the reason I love Shoma Uno so much is because everyone else in the sport is a top athlete in everything they do, down to the way they think. They train in big rinks with coaches who used to win the big titles themselves when they were younger. They complete their interviews and photoshoots and press conferences with the same confidence and poise that they display on the ice.

And then there’s Shoma.

Still in the same corner of Japan he was born in, in the same rink and with the same coach he had when he started skating at age 5. Spending his nights gaming and then missing buses to olympic events because he overslept. Profoundly uncomfortable with any kind of public attention. 

Shoma “yeah I skate sometimes in my free time… oh wait was that the Olympics I just came second at? oh well that happens sometimes, now can you turn that camera off I’d like to sleep” Uno.

What a man.