Shoma was also on Tetsuko's Room, and it was a pretty good episode! It was part of GPF promotion (as both the variety show and GPF are under TV Asahi), but it really touched on Shoma's history as a competitive skater. Apparently the show also had Ice Brave 2 footage, which is interesting because I don't think TV Asahi has any connection with it, so they probably got it from Toyota.
Also they had a lot of close-up shots during the show, and I can't blame them, he looks really good:
Sponichi had 3 articles summarizing the contents (my favorite is when Shoma talked about his mother):
フィギュアスケート男子の五輪2大会連続メダリストでプロとして活動する宇野昌磨さん（27）が3日放送のテレ朝系「徹子の部屋」に出演。母への感謝を語った。
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Shoma Uno expresses gratitude to his mother: “She raised me as a figure skater.”
As a boy: “I competed because I didn’t want to get scolded.”
December 3, 2025 – 14:45
Professional figure skater Shoma Uno (27), a two-time Olympic medalist in men’s figure skating, appeared on TV Asahi’s
Tetsuko’s Room on the 3rd, where he spoke about his deep gratitude toward his mother.
At age 11, he placed third in his first All-Japan Junior Championships. “Honestly, back then I was competing because I didn’t want my mom to get mad at me… Right after finishing my program, the first thing I’d do was look for her to see, ‘Is she angry?’” he said with a laugh.
“I really wanted my mom to praise me. She’s the one who built my figure skating. Of course I put in the effort too, but more than half of it is thanks to her,” he said gratefully.
When host Tetsuko Kuroyanagi asked, “Is it true your mom was scarier than your coach?” Uno replied, “It actually is,” and continued: “But precisely because she was strict, I think I was able to train that hard and get good even when I was still little. It’s not that I hated it at the time, and even now I’m grateful.”
He added with a wry smile, “I never had a rebellious phase. She was so scary that rebelling wasn’t even an option.”
He shared that his mother previously worked in the beauty field and now runs a café. Although she had no skating or athletic background herself, “Because I was small for my age, I think she wanted me to do a sport where being small wouldn’t put me at a disadvantage, and that’s why she put me in skating.”
He described her daily life back then: “She would take me to and from the rink, always accompany me, always watch my practices—she sacrificed everything else. She’d do the housework, help with my training, then sleep… She’s incredibly powerful, full of energy. Without someone like my mom, a skater who could compete on the world stage like me would never have been possible.”
He said his mother was happy about his Olympic appearances, but at the same time, “She was more worried and nervous than anyone. Because she’d always been so strict with me, maybe she felt guilty thinking that if I didn’t skate well, it was partly her fault. She said she couldn’t watch my competitions.”
フィギュアスケート男子の五輪2大会連続メダリストでプロとして活動する宇野昌磨さん（27）が3日放送のテレ朝系「徹子の部屋」に出演。後輩の言葉が刺激となり成長…
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Shoma Uno reveals the words from a younger skater that motivated him during a slump: “I was embarrassed… I wanted to be someone cooler.”
[December 3, 2025 – 14:28]
Professional figure skater Shoma Uno (27), a two-time Olympic medalist competing as a pro, appeared on TV Asahi’s
Tetsuko no Heya on the 3rd, where he shared how a junior skater’s words pushed him to grow during a period of stagnation.
Uno recalled that the year after winning silver at the PyeongChang Olympics, he struggled with poor results.
“Day after day, no matter how much I trained, things just wouldn’t go well. Even so, I still had to go into competitions, and I ended up making more mistakes than I ever had before, leaving really disappointing results,” he said.
“It was the outcome of practicing so earnestly, so I really didn’t know what to do anymore,” he admitted. But then, “I’d been skating for so long already… so at least at the end, I wanted to skate happily,” and for the next six months he shifted his mindset.
At the World Championships, where he competed alongside Yuma Kagiyama, he said, “My performance wasn’t bad, but Kagiyama-kun placed higher than I did.”
“At first, I wasn’t upset… it felt natural, in a way. He has great ability, and I also felt I had done everything I could.”
But after the competition, he saw an interview where Kagiyama said,
“The skater I admire is Shoma Uno.”
“At that moment, I felt a little embarrassed,” Uno recalled.
“I realized that the version of myself who wasn’t feeling frustrated, and the fact that a younger skater who outperformed me still admired me… it made me want to be someone cooler, someone worthy of that admiration,” he said.
“So for the next year, I threw away all those thoughts like ‘what if I fail…’. Instead, I trained with the intention of becoming a skater that my junior could look at and think, ‘He’s so cool.’ And that led to good results.”
Uno said he originally had a personality that feared failure.
“But when I realized that there’s so much to learn from failures, it made things easier. Once I understood that messing up properly is what leads to growth, I actually started feeling like, ‘Go ahead and fail if you need to.’ And after that, I stopped getting nervous,” he shared, reflecting on how much he has matured mentally.
フィギュアスケート男子の五輪2大会連続メダリストでプロとして活動する宇野昌磨さん（27）が3日放送のテレ朝系「徹子の部屋」に出演。引退を決意させた2人の存在…
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Shoma Uno — The two people who led him to decide to retire:
“Two skaters I could never beat. And that’s exactly why the challenge was fun.”
[December 3, 2025 – 14:15]
Professional figure skater Shoma Uno (27), a two-time Olympic medalist in men’s figure skating, appeared on TV Asahi’s
Tetsuko no Heya on the 3rd, where he spoke about the two people whose presence ultimately led him to decide to retire.
He admitted, “I never really thought I had more talent than other people. I just tried to make up for everything by practicing really hard.”
He added that the only reason he
could train that much was “because I genuinely wanted to,” and said the people who kept his motivation alive were “Yuzuru Hanyu and America’s Nathan Chen.”
“They were the two skaters I absolutely couldn’t beat. And that’s exactly why challenging them was so much fun,” he recalled.
“But after the Olympics, they both retired, and naturally I became the top skater. From there, for a whole year, I was able to win every competition I entered. But there was this slight sense of loneliness… I had always lived in constant challenge mode, and that thrill, that excitement—it felt a little less than before,” he confessed.
He continued, “Day-to-day training and going into competitions stopped being something I
earnestly wanted to do, and became something I
had to do. That shift was really tough.” As the sport’s leading figure, enjoyment had gradually been overtaken by a sense of obligation.
He also looked back on the technical side, saying, “Even when I increased my training hours, my level was still dropping bit by bit, and I couldn’t accept that.” It was this feeling, he explained, that solidified his decision to retire.
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They said they are working on new lifts between Tokyo and Yamanashi, but Shoma said it's quite scary. Marin said she's bought helmets so she's ready to practice more 
