There are not a lot of articles on Shizuka out there. I mean, there are some four year old ones about the 2006 Olympics, but those usually tend to go, like, "Sasha Cohen and Irina Slutskaya both fell IN A STUNNING UPSET, and Shizuka Arakawa got gold..." which is not reeeeeally what I'm looking for. What I want: interviews, people! Articles which talk about her personal life to some extent! I don't doubt that there are these things out there -- even if Shizuka seems to be pretty private about her personal life -- it's just that they're all in Japanese. I am super entitled, and Google Translate makes my head hurt.
So, if you have anything of the sort, send those my way? I've been trawling
ontd_skating and stuff, but yeah. Insufficient for my needs, people! I should probably have taken Japanese more seriously way back in secondary school, but um. D:
In return, have a video where Shizuka and Miki dress up in kimono and look stiff and awkward.
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Miki is only 17 here! She looks terribly young and adorable.