Amped wrote:Youngtown radio 3-7-15 - Sayashi Riho, Iikubo Haruna, guest Ogata Haruna
Excerpt on Ogata.
- She lived in Osaka country side. Both of her parents came from Miyaki, probably why they like to live in a country side.
- Her dad is a normal salaryman and has to commute about 2 hours for work.
- Her mom is around 50 year of ages.
- Her mom drove her for an hour to a skate rink for practice almost everyday from when she is 5 year old to 14 year old.
- She practiced in the same ice skate rink as Takahashi Daisuke (First Olympic medal (Bronze) for Japanese men), and in the same group as Miyahara Satoko (raising star among Japanese female skater at the moment)
- She grades her skating level as mid-high among her skating colleagues (which is probably why she quite, at this age with this level, it will be hard for her to compete as pro skater. Japanese has so many talented young skater, second only to Russia, and figure skating cost $$$$$)
- She applied to Morning Musume audition by herself.
- When she was 7, she wrote her name with a crayon inside her dad just newly bought car. (On the other hand, on the day that Sayashi moved in to her current house in Hiroshima that her parents just bought when she was 2, she draw an onigiri on the wall with a permanent pen. lol)