FIgure Skating in Olympic

Woman's Figure Skating in Vancouver was a game which most of Japanese people were looking forward to watching. And yesterday's free skating was the game which literally all of Japanese watched.
It was unfortunate Mao won the silver medal despite of most Japanese expectations. But she performed pretty well, given the slump of her during the year of 2009. She was about to loose to be nomination for this year's Olympic.
And other two woman athletes are also performed well.

The results were
Silver Medal ; ASADA, Mao (born in 1990)
4th ;ANDO, Miki (born in 1987)
8th ;SUZUKI, Akiko (born in 1985)

Among those athletes, Suzuki Akiko amazed most Japanese. She won the 1st prize in Junior High School competition. But afterwards, when she became a college student hundred miles away from her home, she was so overwhelmed by the pressure from her surrounding that she suffered anorexia. She could hardly get up from her bed. So she eventually went back to her home town, where her mother made home-made nutritious foods for her. She lost her weight to 32Kg from her original weight was 47kg. Thanks to her mother's continuous warm supports, she came back to the NHK competition in 2008, and won the third prize. Although she remained in 8th position, her smile with her satisfaction after the competition impressed so much.

It was a great and exciting game.

(From left; Asada, Ando, Suzuki,)