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　Silver medal in Pyeongchang, bronze medal in Beijing. Shoma Uno (26 years previous), who received two consecutive Olympic medals and two world championships in males’s determine skating, retired from energetic sports activities and held a retirement press convention on 14 Could. A author who has been watching determine skating for a few years and nonetheless makes authentic commentary.Akiko Sunadawanting again at Shoma Uno’s enchantment as an athlete. (JBpress Editorial Division)

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It was a refreshing and heat assembly. Uno stated he had “no regrets” about competing, and introduced that he would proceed to skate professionally to any extent further.

To look at Mr. Uno’s achievements in his aggressive profession, he received three medals on the Olympics (silver, bronze, and group silver), changing into the primary Japanese man to win two consecutive World Championships , and received the All-Japan Championships completed a number of feats, together with profitable six tournaments and changing into the primary on the planet to finish a quadruple flip.

Free efficiency of Shoma Uno, who positioned 4th on the planet males’s determine skating championship (Montreal, March 2024 / Photograph: Kyodo Information)

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Uno’s skateboarding profession coincided with the rise of skateboarding in Japan.

He began skating on the age of 5 with Mao Asada, and on the age of 9 he admired Daisuke Takahashi, whom he watched stay, and he competed within the Olympics twice with Yuzuru Hanyu. Mr. Uno, who has been attracting consideration since he was a baby and continued to provide outcomes through the years, was undoubtedly a uncommon athlete.

Nevertheless, what’s as memorable to me because the result’s Mr. Uno’s distinctive humanity. Uninteresting, sincere, and pure. He’s a participant who doesn’t like group actions and likes to go at his personal tempo, however he doesn’t hate folks, and in reality, he warms to everybody equally . I consider that Mr. Uno was an open-minded athlete who was capable of flip the power of these round him into his personal power.

That is what occurred on the retirement press convention.

When requested a few imaginative and prescient in his aggressive profession that might be nice, reminding him of that imaginative and prescient, he would have the ability to proceed to do his greatest, Uno replied, “After he Championship to win the World Cup for the primary time (in 2022) “I see Stefan appears blissful.” Stéphane is Stéphane Lambiel, the coach that Uno has been finding out underneath since 2019. It is extremely typical in Uno that the imaginative and prescient of a grounder is to not obtain his personal, however the imaginative and prescient of his coach to be blissful .

Shoma Uno is congratulated by coach Shinichi Izumi (left) and coach Stéphane Lambiel (proper) after profitable the GP last (December 2022, Turin / Photograph: Kyodo Information)

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The love between mentor and scholar with coach Lambiel is well-known, and when requested about his dedication earlier than this yr’s World Championships (2024), Uno stated, “I’m self-satisfied by satisfying Stéphane. ”I do not work onerous for Coach Stefan. Uno has “fantastic relationships” with different folks right here, as a result of he feels that skating for Coach Stefan can be skating for himself.