Miki Ando is just one of Japan's 94 athletes in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. She is a 22 year old figure skater that is going for the gold this winter.
Born in 1987, Miki started skating at age 9. She went to a rink after school with some friends and fell in love with the sport. She "thought it was the most interesting (sport) for expression and playing a character." (Golden Skate, 08 May 2004)
She trains 28 hours a week in Hackensack, New Jersey. (isufs.org, 31 Jan 2009) Her coaches are Nikolai Morozov and Yuko Monna. In the 2006 Olympic Games, she ranked 15th. She went on to win the 2007 World Championships in Japan.
In these Olympic Games her short program music is “Requiem” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and her free skating music includes; “Rome” [soundtrack] Marco Polo [soundtrack] by Ennio Morricone, and “Mission Cleopatra” from Asterix and Obelix [soundtrack] by Philippe Chany. (ISU, 04 Feb 2010)
Watch her perform in the short program on February 23 at 16:30 and the free skate on February 25 at 17:00.
Find out more about her on the Official Olympic web-site.
For more information on the Vancover 2010 Olympic Games visit the Official site here.
Photo courtesy of Golden Skate.
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