{"id":76193,"date":"2010-02-26T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T05:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=135"},"modified":"2010-02-26T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T05:02:02","slug":"matsumoto-girl-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/matsumoto-girl-at-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Matsumoto Girl at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been just watching the finals of the Olympic Ladies Figure Ice skating. Congratulations to Kim Yuna from Korea who is clearly an exceptional skater and to Mao Asada up against such an exceptional opponent&#8230;.But It is also great to see that half of the top 8 places were Japanese if you include #4 Mirai Nagasu a girl whose mother comes from right here in Matsumoto.<br \/>\nMirai if you&#8217;re out there&#8230;Come and vist your mother country and your mother&#8217;s hometown again sometime soon. And best wishes to your Mom healthwise at the moment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/matsumoto-girl-at-the-olympics\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/matsumoto-girl-at-the-olympics\/\" data-text=\"Matsumoto Girl at the Olympics\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been just watching the finals of the Olympic Ladies Figure Ice skating. Congratulations to Kim Yuna from Korea who is clearly an exceptional skater and to Mao Asada up against such an exceptional opponent&#8230;.But It is also great to see that half of the top 8 places were Japanese if you include #4 Mirai Nagasu a girl whose mother comes from right here in Matsumoto. Mirai if you&#8217;re out there&#8230;Come and vist your mother country and your mother&#8217;s hometown again sometime soon. 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