Yuma Kagiyama, who won the silver medal in the men's single of figure skating at the Beijing Olympics, attended the entrance ceremony of the university to go on to school and said, "I want to make an effort to grow so that I can evolve further." Told.
In February, 18-year-old Kagiyama won the top silver medal of Japanese athletes in the men's singles for figure skating at the Beijing Olympics.
After the Olympics, he won the silver medal for the second consecutive year at the World Championships held last month.
Kagiyama will be enrolled in the sports science department of Chukyo University from this month, and attended the university entrance ceremony held in Nagoya City on the 5th.
At a press conference after the ceremony, Kagiyama said, "I realized that I was a university student after the entrance ceremony. I didn't have many opportunities to go to school because the high school was a correspondence system, so I want to enjoy my university life." I was there.
When asked by the press about the subject registration, he answered with a smile, "I chose Chinese as my language. I thought it was easy to understand because it was in Chinese."
Regarding his university life goals, he said, "I will do my best from scratch in the new world, so I will strive to grow so that I can evolve further with programs, jumps, and human power." I told you.
For the next Olympics, which will be held in the fourth year of college, he said, "I want to overcome the things in front of me now, but in the end I want to perform better than this season and revenge at the next Olympics." , He talked about his thoughts on the gold medal that he did not receive at the first Olympics.