Shizuka arakawa's Sports Experience

Four years later, she took part in the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. In that year's national championship, she only ranked second and failed to qualify. Nevertheless, shizuka arakawa has achieved good results in other competitions. In Dortmund in 2004, she became the world champion for the first time. In 2005, she suffered a blow and almost ended her skating career, but in 2006, she still participated in the Winter Olympics in Turin. The new coach and program have brought a new and energetic shizuka arakawa. In the short program, she ranked third. On February 23rd, she performed a long program with Puccini's Turandot, and scored 1, 9 1.34, winning the gold medal successfully. Her gold medal brought the first Olympic figure skating gold medal to Japan and even Asia.

Shizuka arakawa, the Japanese figure skating champion, held a press conference at Yokohama Hotel, announcing that he would leave amateur ice rink and switch to professional ice rink.

The 24-year-old Olympic champion said: "Participating in professional performances can bring me happiness. I want to show people the beauty of figure skating. This is my dream! " I want to repay everything that figure skating has brought me through my performance. I'm glad that I can finish my competition career satisfactorily. Shizuka arakawa also revealed that in addition to performing in Japan, she will also participate in the "Ice Champion" performance troupe of the United States and Europe, which is joined by many former Olympic champions and world champions. On the eve of the World Championships in Dortmund, Germany in 2004, shizuka arakawa left his former coach Richard Callahan (Editor's Note: Callahan is also the coach of the famous American player Lipinski) to join the famous Russian gold medal coach Tarasova, and conquered all the spectators and referees at the World Championships for the first time with his difficult jumping and elegant artistic expression. She also became the third Japanese figure skater to win the world championship after Itō Midori and Tomoko Sato. In the 2005 World Championships in Moscow, shizuka arakawa did not perform well due to injuries and other reasons, ranking only ninth. After that, shizuka arakawa, who was hurt and disheartened, once planned to hang up his boots, but was finally persuaded by the Japanese Figure Skating Association and friends to give up. On June+10, 2005, shizuka arakawa left Tarasova to learn from another Russian coach, Morozov. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, he boldly abandoned the new program that had been used for nearly a season and re-launched the classic program Turandot that was used when he won the World Championships in 2004. In the end, shizuka arakawa, who returned to the Olympic rink after eight years, gave full play to her level with her increasingly mature technical and psychological qualities, and defeated Russian popular star Luca and American player sasha cohen in one fell swoop to win the championship unexpectedly, which made her the highest achievement in skating career! For many years, there are not many skating rinks that can be used all year round in Japan. Many private skating rinks, including those used for shizuka arakawa's childhood training, closed down due to poor management. So the training conditions of most Japanese figure skaters are not good. Arakawa's success in the Winter Olympics in Turin really triggered a figure skating craze.