A few minutes with Rinka Watanabe

[gsk8]

Japan's Rinka Watanabe 渡辺 倫果 takes a few minutes to talk to Golden Skate before she takes the ice in her Grand Prix debut at 2022 Skate Canada tomorrow for the Short Program! She was first interested in Figure Skating after watching Shizuka Arakawa when she was three. She loves Daisuke Takahashi's step sequences as well, and she's excited that she will be seeing him soon in Sapporo.

She talks about her previous training locations and how she returned to Japan to work on her basic skating skills, how happy she was to reach her goal of over 200 points at Lombardia Trophy, her goal to become a better skater, her unique hobby of collecting Bathynomus giganteus figures, and more.

The 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy Champion will compete again at NHK Trophy later this next month!

 

[yesterday]

Wow, she really speaks well!

 

[Sai Bon]

Lol I had to look up "Bathynomus giganteus." And she's so cute, asking her coach what keizaigaku (economics, her major at uni) is in English!

 

[Sai Bon]

I guess this is what she's into: https://zoids.fandom.com/wiki/Gusock
Definitely not your usual girly girl hobby!
Good luck to her at Skate Canada!

 

[denise3lz]

I remember "Bathynomus giganteus" (ダイオウグソクムシ Daiougusokumushi) was buzzed in Japan when
a aquarium had 60 hours livestream of it which lived over 5 years without eating anything.

GWにグソクムシ水槽を60時間監視しよう！

2009年に餌を食べて以来、ゴハンを食べない絶食状態が5年目に突入した深海生物「ダイオウグソクムシ/NO.1」。春の48時間放送に引き続き、鳥羽水族館の全面協力のもと、飼育水槽にカメラを設置。前回より12時間放送枠を拡大し60時間にわたって放送、徹底的にゴハンを食べるかどうかを監視します。

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