Hanae Ito’s For Your Smile-For the Future of Female Athletes vol.1
Hanae Ito, who has been active as a global swimmer, has participated in two consecutive Olympic games. Since she retired in 2012, she has contributed to sports promotion in several organizations, including a staff member of the Tokyo Oripara Organizing Committee and a vice chairman of the All Japan Judo Federation Branding Strategy Promotion Special Committee. At the same time, she published in various media on the theme of women’s physical problems, and recently she has been working to support female student athletes as the leader of the “1252 Project”, which is a general incorporated association that does not stop sports. ing.
For her who has experienced pregnancy and childbirth and is struggling to raise children, she will serialize ideas to change the current situation, knowledge that she should know, and the struggle of female athletes for the future of female athletes.
Figure skating that is being considered to raise the participation age to 17 years old
The Beijing Olympics have been a historic tournament with excellent results for Japan, but ski jumping wear rules violations, mysterious judges, racist issues, and doping by Camilla Wariewa (ROC: Russian Olympic Committee). A lot of problems have surfaced, including problems. Among them, this time I would like to think about Wariewa from the perspective of younger female athletes.
Wariewa, who became a hot topic at the Beijing Olympics, is 15 years old. Zagitova (OAR: Olympic Athletes from Russia), who won the Pyeongchang Olympics figure skating, was also 15 years old at that time. There is also the fact that Russian female athletes have not participated in the Olympics in a single single since the 2010 Vancouver Games, after Irina Slutskaya, who has participated in three consecutive tournaments.
According to experts, young female skaters have the advantage of being able to spin faster in the air due to their narrow hips and shoulders, and to be able to handle difficult jumps effortlessly. With this in mind, the International Skating Union (ISU) is coordinating a plan to raise the age at which it can participate in figure skating to the Olympics and world championships to 17 years old at the general meeting in June.
