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OLYMPICS: ASADA DEPARTS FOR ARMENIA TRAINING BASE
Japan Economic Newswire
February 10, 2014 Monday 10:24 AM GMT
SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 10
SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 10 - Mao Asada left Sochi on Monday to prepare for
the women's figure skating competition at the Japan team's training
base in the Armenian capital of Yerevan.
"My body is weak, so I want to get back into competitive shape,"
she said a day after Japan finished fifth in the Olympics' first team
figure skating competition.
Asada is expected to train for a week at the base Japan has prepared
in Yerevan before returning to Sochi. The Vancouver Games' silver
medalist was third in the women's short program during the team
competition after she fell on her opening triple axel.
"It was a mental issue," she said. "I want to focus on my performance."
In the singles competition, she will face competition from not only
her longtime rival Kim Yu Na of South Korea, but also from Russian
Julia Lipnitskaia. In the team competition, the dynamic 15-year-old
Lipnitskaia was first in both the women's short program and the
free skate.
"My target," Asada said, "is to execute a satisfactory performance
in my final Olympic Games."
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/02/271064.html
Japan Economic Newswire
February 10, 2014 Monday 10:24 AM GMT
SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 10
SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 10 - Mao Asada left Sochi on Monday to prepare for
the women's figure skating competition at the Japan team's training
base in the Armenian capital of Yerevan.
"My body is weak, so I want to get back into competitive shape,"
she said a day after Japan finished fifth in the Olympics' first team
figure skating competition.
Asada is expected to train for a week at the base Japan has prepared
in Yerevan before returning to Sochi. The Vancouver Games' silver
medalist was third in the women's short program during the team
competition after she fell on her opening triple axel.
"It was a mental issue," she said. "I want to focus on my performance."
In the singles competition, she will face competition from not only
her longtime rival Kim Yu Na of South Korea, but also from Russian
Julia Lipnitskaia. In the team competition, the dynamic 15-year-old
Lipnitskaia was first in both the women's short program and the
free skate.
"My target," Asada said, "is to execute a satisfactory performance
in my final Olympic Games."
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/02/271064.html