One of the “news that made a noise” this year was “Medal biting” by Takashi Kawamura, the mayor of Nagoya. Today (December 2021), “Mezamashi 8” was a corner to look back on the past year, and told Mayor Kawamura what he had interviewed.
In August of this year, when the Japan Women’s Softball National Team paid a courtesy visit to his hometown of Nagoya, Mayor Kawamura bit the gold medal in front of the press. Booing arose from all over Japan for acts that hurt important medals and did not give consideration to infection prevention. After that, he sent an apology by hand to Nagoya City officials, but he was criticized again for being “difficult to read” due to the distorted characters.
From the program site
Shosuke Tanihara “If you are an athlete …”
In the program, I asked Mayor Kawamura to draw a line on the prepared board with a magic line in a plan to “look back on this year with a line graph”, and he said, “Wow, I always get 120 points or more in the annual score. “Take” and “What I mean is to do my best”, a confident answer. “This is a cheap monthly salary, and it’s probably the cheapest mayor in Japan. For 8 million yen,” he said.
At the beginning of the year, he drew more than 100 lines, saying that the performance was good, and the line went down after August when there was a “bite”.
“What you hear is that there is a story about medals, really. I will say that, but I wonder if Mr. Yamashita of Judo, JOC (Chairman Yasuhiro Yamashita), and two hanging meetings in Tokyo. He said that this was solved. He said that he (Goto) wouldn’t make this a problem. Kawamura-san shouldn’t talk anymore. I’m talking and spiraling. ” As usual, he didn’t talk about his impressions of “medal biting”.
After that, he also asked if he talked to the player himself, “I don’t know. Well, I think it’s a nuisance. I’m careful about that.”
When MC Shosuke Tanihara commented to So Takei (talent), “What if I was bitten by a gold medal as an athlete?”, Takei said, “If it’s my case, I’m okay.” I am also the chairman of the association (Japan Fencing Association), so please do not comment. “
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