＞あと、FSUにこんな投稿があった。 ＞I also read on Soloviev's site that NTV+ got broadcast rights ＞for the past 50 or so years of the Olympics and are trying to ＞come up with a broadcast series plan.
View Poll Results: Greatest lady (singles) skater who is not from the USA? Katarina Witt 8 21.05% Irina Slutskaya 5 13.16% Midori Ito 11 28.95% Shizuka Arakawa 1 2.63% Yu na Kim 4 10.53% Mao Asada 4 10.53% Sonia Henie 5 13.16% Other 0 0%
N: A sweltering summer afternoon in Broadmoor, Maryland - the latest stop, on her road trip , without an end.
O: Midori, could you sign on a couple of cards, please
G: Oh, you were waiting in this hot weather for me?
O :Sure!
G: Oh, how sweet of you...
O: I came here yesterday, but I missed you.
N: For twenty year old Midori Goto, who performs simply as Midori, it's time to think about how close to the edge she will go tonight.
G: That's why I love performances. Each performance is a great challenge. Especially when I'm taking the risks, I mean, letting myself take these risks, then I (???わからん instinctivelyか?) feel the thrills. That's what makes a live performance...that's one of the reasons why it makes a live performace so exciting.
N: 7000 miles away in Nagoya, Japan, another Midori, the 1989 world figure skating champion Midori Ito, considers how close to the edge she must go, to become champion again.
I: In any sport, we can't attempt a new technique or a difficult skill. without the risks of being hurt. But on the other hand, we can't continue to skate if we get hurt. So it's a very subtle decision to make. It's very ambivalent.
N: The athlete Midori was born in Nagoya 22 years ago, and began skating at the age of 4. Six years later when her parents separated, she moved in with her coach, Machiko Yamada. She's had little contact with her parents ever since.
I: Mrs.Yamda is like a mother to me at home. And when I go to the skating rink she's a coach to me.
N: The artist Midori moved from Japan to New York ten years ago when her parents divorced. She now lives with her mother, who she calls "her only family."
G: In a way, being away from the family gave me more time to concentrate. I didn't have to worry about anything. I only have to worry about music.
N: When violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman first heard Midori, he wept. An artist like this, he says, comes along, only once in every 50 years Others say the 4-foot-11-inch virtuoso plays like a man.
G: Sometimes, by releasing the energy, we are not putting as much pressure as we think we should on the right hand, which is a hand we hold our bow, sometimes creates a bigger sound.
INV: When you hear that kind of uh... when people say things like that, are you offended by it?
N: Just under 5 feet tall, Midori Ito is the Michael Jordan of figure skating. When she launches an explosive triple axel, her competitors say, she skates like a man.
I: I haven't even thought about how high I'm jumping, but later I watch the video tape, and I say "Wow! I'm really jumping high!" and I'm really surprised with myself.
N: Surprised perhaps, but rarely satisfied. They are soloists. They perform alone. And when things go wrong on their respective stages, they must deal with it, alone... ...as Midori Ito did when she jumped into the camra pit, at last year's world championships, and continued to perform.
I: To be honest, all I thought was, "Gosh, it hurts." When I jumped into the camera pit, I thought "Why am I here, I must go and skate."
N: Or when this Midori, at the age of 14, broke strings on two violins during Leonard Bernstein's Serenade, and never missed a beat.
INV: You just calmly reached over, took a violin, and you calmly reached over yet again.
G: I did not panic because...well, first of all, my feeling for the piece was so strong, I love that piece so much, that there was not of an moment, when I had time I had space in my brains to think that I was scared.
N: The artist with the guts of an athlete, the athlete with the soul of an artist. They have traveled separate roads, each aware of the other, but never coming face to face... until last August, when Midori returned to Japan for a recital. In a hotel in Nagoya, these two tiny towering figures met for the first time.
G+I: こんにちは〜こんにちは〜はじめまして。 Lady: Midori, this is Midori.
N: They talked for hours about their work, their goals, their dreams., the points at which their lives touch.
I: When I watched her on TV, I had the impression she was a genius. I thought she was sort of above the cloud. But when I talked to her, I found that she is the same person as me, I felt like I was talking to a friend of mine.
G: I did not expect her to be so..., you know, "petite." You know, when I saw her today I found, "oh my god!" you know, "she is even shorter than me!"
I: Figure skating is both art and sport. And figure skater must be strong in sport as well as art. Today I met the artist Midori. I felt we had something in common, such as the feelings and thoughts we have before a large competition.
G: The most important similarity that we have is that we both love what we are doing. And (pointing at Midori Ito) she was telling me earlier, that you know, she sometimes think of quitting. But she can never actually quit it, because she loves it so much and she has put so much energy, and we both work very hard.
N: (???わからん) is their past, their present, and their future?
I: Of course I think I get married in the future, and have a family. But for the time being, I can't think of anything else but the Olympics.
G: I really want to find someone, that I really could love for the rest of my life, and umm, that might not be easy, you know, with the kind of work that we do, it might not be easy.
N: And then, it is back to work. Midori, with the Baltimore Symphony, under the direction of David Zinman. (Zehlmannかな、よくわからん) And Midori Ito, at the Lalique tournament in Albertville. These two Midoris, this athlete, and this artist, on the road again, on stage again, making the crowds love them, again.