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Mao Asada announces retirement

gotoschool

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Nobunari Oda video: Mao was like a skating angel loved by the spirit of the sport.

Yuzuru Hanyu video : Mao will continue to be my dream skater. She inspired me and I am very grateful.

Johnny Weir instagram:
Mao-chan, thank you for your brilliance, your strength and your majesty in our sport. You've touched so many hearts through your competitive career and I wish you a very happy retirement!

Ashley Wagner: Congrats on a beautiful and illustrious career. You truly lit up the ice with your talent and changed the path of skating. https://translate.googleusercontent...p1334/&usg=ALkJrhiiv9eo9WVAB0IAMaCuDNlN9GNwTg

Laurie Lepisto: Huge respect and gratitude to Mao Asada for developing our sports, congratulations to a rate career, and all the best for the future.

Shizuku Arakawa video: Mao has been a challenger with conviction. She has been the most influential performer in Japanese figure skating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2nY4pHUScE

During the 3 hour broadcast honoring Mao's career Evgeni Plushenko and Evgenia Medvedeva were both interviewed and both complimented Mao on her great technical elements and sophisticated expression with Evgeni also mentioning how she mastered body position and movement though I admit I didn't write it down just caught the jist of it in Russian. Evgenia specifically being inspired by seeing Mao in 2007 Worlds from what I remember and understand. There was also a very nice tweet written in Japanese by Jason Browne but I can't find it now.

Long video clip during which Nobunari just continues to cry for a long time. I admit to crying too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC1d062IJU8

And here is an article about Nobunari Oda's reaction to Mao's retirement

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/12918615/

Here is a small sample of a multitude of messages about Mao's retirements: Here is a small sample of the multitude of messages about Mao's retirement:

https://translate.googleusercontent...9.html&usg=ALkJrhg39WW3XVMWU7SRCtbJCkr3O0OhkQ
 
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synesthesia

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There was also a very nice tweet written in Japanese by Jason Browne but I can't find it now.

Jason
https://twitter.com/jasonbskates/status/851631894127104000



Daisuke
https://twitter.com/nonkimama2/status/851729399753789440
https://www.daily.co.jp/general/2017/04/11/0010086231.shtml
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170411-00000528-sanspo-spo

Video: "She was a competitor, who had everything figure skating requires. I am glad I was able to compete with her as her comtemporary. I want to thank her for her great contribution to figure skating."



Was this collection of translated comments by japanese skaters already posted?

http://fstranslations.tumblr.com/post/159432900044/team-japans-messages-for-mao-asadas-retirement


There are so many! :sad21:
 

gotoschool

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Jason
https://twitter.com/jasonbskates/status/851631894127104000



Daisuke
https://twitter.com/nonkimama2/status/851729399753789440
https://www.daily.co.jp/general/2017/04/11/0010086231.shtml
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170411-00000528-sanspo-spo

Video: "She was a competitor, who had everything figure skating requires. I am glad I was able to compete with her as her comtemporary. I want to thank her for her great contribution to figure skating."



Was this collection of translated comments by japanese skaters already posted?

http://fstranslations.tumblr.com/post/159432900044/team-japans-messages-for-mao-asadas-retirement


There are so many! :sad21:

Thanks for posting the video, synthesia. I remember now that you posted one of the videos that was a source for a couple of the messages I mentioned and thanks for the link to Jason's message to Mao.
 

yelyoh

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I remember many years ago when Mao won the grand prix final and Irina Slutsyaya was so miffed that she got bested by this kid. It seems like yesterday. I said of Lambiel years ago on this board that he was an athlete and an artist and I believe Mao was also. In Sochi to my mind her LP was the best of the event. It was THE gold medal skate. I like millions of others will miss her. For sure she is so well adored she will continue to be a cherished and beloved human being both in Japan and the FSing world.
 
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Arriba627

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^^^Thank you, gotoschool, for all the efforts you made to always keep us informed on Mao's activities. I have always appreciated your posts and your genuine love of Mao! :thank:
 

Tolstoj

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Thank you Asada-san!

It has been a long journey since her first international competition and i loved every second of it.

She was not just an amazing athlete, she pushed the sport forward: with Tatiana Tarasova and Lori Nichol she brought us some of the best programs in ladies figure skating ever.
 

cohkaix

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Goodbye to a great skater. She brought so many magical moments.

She also brought one of my favorite dresses in figure skating.

https://goldenlutz.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/177/comment-page-1/

It happens that there's an interview from the designer who worked with Mao on the Mme Butterfly dress (news link in Japanese):
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170412/k10010945291000.html

The designer, Yasuno, comments on the dress:'Mao said that she feels very proud about Japanese Kimono. She wants to show the world the beauty of kimono, in particular with the "obi" (waistband) attached to the dress.'

(NB: Yasuno also designed Mao's Sochi Nocturne dress in lavender)
 

asp11

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Mao Asada: Huge Impact

http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2017...-asadas-impact-will-live-on-for-years-to-come

When you get past the trope of the aria's title and opening verse, which scoffs at women for being flighty, you come to the nature of the flight: "qual piuma al vento" -- like a feather in the wind.
That is the best description for the way Asada moved on the ice, even in the later years of her career, when she added the mature elegance of a woman in her mid-20s to the jump that had separated her from nearly every other woman in the sport over the length of that career.

Great article. She is a legend.
 

bmcc102

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I am so glad to have witnessed her rise to fame, starting with that charming Japanese Nationals LP performance back in 2002, when she was only twelve and already doing 3 axels, 3lutz/3loop, 3flip/3loop/3toe ! (Albeit, not with the better technique she'd later achieve, but still!).


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asp11

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I am so glad to have witnessed her rise to fame, starting with that charming Japanese Nationals LP performance back in 2002, when she was only twelve and already doing 3 axels, 3lutz/3loop, 3flip/3loop/3toe ! (Albeit, not with the better technique she'd later achieve, but still!).


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Absolutely!
 
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gotoschool

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from https://search.yahoo.co.jp/realtime/search/浅田真央/


: Asada Mao 's related program broadcasting decision】 NHK will broadcast "Memories on ice" that summarizes the performance of Asada at the NHK cup from NHK at 8 pm tonight. In addition, the highlight program of the women's single of Vancouver and the Sochi Olympics is also broadcasted one after another. For details click here! Www1.nhk.or.jp/sports2/skate/...
 

Barb

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Thanks to Rosewood from FSU, translation: She felt she did all out at Japan Nats. Even in the K'C she felt so. Placing 12th which was the worst placement in her whole career played a role regarding letting her decide to retire. The final decision was made in February by herself. She talked about it with her family & close friends but basically she decided it by herself. She needed time to announce her retirement for preparing this and that as well as letting her mentally settled. Today she felt great to have this opportunity and get her new life started.

One thing that let her take time to make a final decision was that she always kept her words she said in public. She once said she'll continue competing till next Olys so she was not willing to break her word. That said, after making a good start in her comeback season, she struggled a lot. She managed to finish the first season after the comeback, but the second season (which is this season) was a very tough one. So she felt she did enough in her endeavor when she saw the results in K'C. She repeated the word "I have nothing to regret in a life as a competitive skater," so I felt she was satisfied with everything that she did as her challenge. (I mean she was ready to accept she can't do any more at the point of finishing Nats.) I'm happy to see she was satisfied with her life as a competitive skater and she was excited about her new stage. (Err, is my English OK?)

She got emotional in the end of the conference when she was asked to say a message to her fans. I guess she felt it was the real moment that her life as a competitive skater gets finally finished. It was not a sad tears. It was a nice moment that the media people (it was announced in the beginning of the conference that about 40 TV cameras and ove 350 media people were there. Isn't it awesome? As long as I know I haven't seen NHK had a live coverage of a retirment press conference of any female athlete.) tried to cheer her up when she got emotional and choked up. She's been always surrounded with smiles from people who met her directly.
 
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