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Miki Ando’s near perfect season and her gold medal in World Championships 2011

Today, I would like to talk about Miki Ando who has just won her second world’s gold medal on April 30 2011. This news made me and my husband so happy ! Since last Olympics ( Vancouver Olympics ), we hadn’t been following skating competitions like before, mainly because we are just not crazy for the COP system, and so we were only checking the results of each event. Miki Ando’s victory was very impressive to me and I have been inspired by her strength this whole season. She won everything except GPF, and had a very successful season. She said “ I fought for Japan and wanted to give power and strength to all the victims who suffer from nature disaster, who lost their families and many other things they had . “ According to her, her health condition was not really good though, she learned how to handle the competition under that condition. She also had lost her father by car accident when she was a little girl, eight years old, so she knows how hurt it is to los...