Japan's "sister flowers" and "brothers' companies" went to the Beijing Winter Olympics together

Beijing, 28 Jan (Xinhua) -- The Beijing Winter Olympics will kick off on February 4, and the Japanese delegation has sent the largest overseas team ever, including many scenes of brothers and sisters gathering at the Winter Olympics, which has become a beautiful scenery for the Beijing Winter Olympics.

(Subtitle) Brotherhood Company

Hirano is 23 years old and has two younger brothers, 20-year-old Ryuka Hirano and 19-year-old Hirano Kaiju, both of whom are skiers and snowboarders. The three brothers will fight side by side at the Beijing Winter Olympics to medal in the snowboarding event.

Hirano has won the silver medal in the men's U-shaped field competition in snowboarding at the Winter Olympics for two consecutive years, and his performance this season is also outstanding, which is the biggest hope of the Japanese delegation to win gold in this Winter Olympics. Hirano Ryuyoshi is also very strong, winning the men's U-shaped field competition at the mammoth Mountain Station of the just-concluded Snowboard World Cup, and Hirano Kaisho is participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time. According to Japanese media reports, Hirano Has been looking forward to the growth of his younger brother Haizhu and hopes to inspire each other, while Hirano Haiju, who participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, said: "Participating in the Winter Olympics is my brother's goal and I hope to have a satisfactory result." ”

The 30-year-old Junshiro Kobayashi and the 25-year-old Brothers Reiyu Kobayashi are both ski jumpers and were both selected for the Japan Winter Ski Jumping Team. Younger brother Ryūryu Kobayashi is the most competitive player in the Japanese ski jump team in individual events. Kobayashi Lingyou has a brother, a sister and a brother, all four of them are engaged in ski jumping, of which Kobayashi Lingyou and his brother Kobayashi Runjiro performed the best, Kobayashi Lingyou has recently been in good competitive condition, in the 2021-2022 season has ended the World Cup points temporarily ranked first, stable play makes him one of the players who are expected to win the Beijing Winter Olympics.

(Subtitle) Sister Flowers

The 29-year-old Takagi Anduna and the 27-year-old sister Takagi Mifan are speed skaters, and the Beijing Winter Olympics is the third time the sisters have joined forces. Previously, they both won gold at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the Japanese team also changed the tradition of "snow strong and ice weak" in the past, and the four gold medals all came from ice events, of which three golds came from women's speed skating.

Her sister Miho Takagi is also the captain of the Japanese delegation this time, and the Japanese Olympic Committee has been captained by a female speed skater for two consecutive Winter Olympics. Takagi said: "I am very happy to be on the stage of the Winter Olympics again, no matter how strong the opponent is, I will do my best to play at my best." ”

Two sisters, Senna Tomita, 22, and Sena Tomita, 20, are both women's snowboarders. In the January 2022 FIS Snowboarding U-Field World Cup at Mammoth Mountain in the United States, Tomita Won the championship. The sisters come from Niigata Prefecture, in the north-central part of Honshu Island, Japan, niigata Prefecture is the area with the most snowfall in Japan, known as the "Snow Country", which is the prototype of Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country", which has many ski resorts and a deep foundation of ice and snow sports. According to Japanese media reports, many of Japan's athletes participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics are from Niigata Prefecture. (End)