At last, Japan finally got a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. The Japanese Press, in a somewhat similar way to the British, puts huge pressure on it’s sportsmen and women.

Until now, Japan has had a really poor Olympics, just like the Brits.

So, with no medals up to that point, there was huge pressure building on the Japanese Ice Skating team.
The most popular team member was Miki Ando, who has a big following in Japan. Nothing to do with her Ice Skating skills , just that she’s a rather nice looking, quite curvy 18 year old lady!!

However, the pressure was always going to get to Ando, and as I suspected she fell a number of times.

However, I was suprised that Arakawa that didn’t buckle under the pressure, and indeed it was Sasha Cohen and Irina Slutskaya who ended up making mistakes.

Of course, the Japanese press is going nuts over her at the moment.

Ohh, and by the, Bogue, your blog did not win a gold medal ;)