Kaori Sakamoto:
When asked if she would miss competing, she replied, "I’ll miss working hard in practice to prepare for competitions. Every season, I would create a new program, raise my condition to the point where I could perform it, compete, and achieve results. Thinking that this process is gone now, I realize it was my youth."
She added with a smile, "What I’m glad to leave behind is the dietary restrictions. I don’t have to do what I did for competition anymore, so that’s a relief."
photo Hitoshi Kurasawa
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