First Japanese GS Winner: Rocco Solare’s Itsuki Fujisawa Reveals Thoughts on Winning the World Championships

A few days later, Fujisawa was at Matsu Jushi in Tsuneoro-cho. It is the team’s favorite restaurant and dining place for winning meals.

Basically, I leave it up to Mr. Oogi. I don’t think I order much.

The owner, Daiki Watanabe (45), has been supporting Loco Solare’s stomachs by serving not only locally produced seafood and sushi, but also motsunabe, doria, and even jiro-style ramen.

Sacchan likes sake, so I often serve him snacks that go well with it. This off-season, we opened a bottle of Yamagata’s famous sake “Jyushiyo” to celebrate his silver medal at the Beijing Olympics and his victory in the Japanese championship, and he seemed to enjoy drinking it. She is a very cheerful drinker,” said Watanabe.

Fujisawa is well known in the curling world as a heavy drinker, as he happily drank the popular Akita sake Niimasa No. 6 and the well-known Saga sake Nogomi.

Sake is a Japanese drink,” he said. I don’t have a chance to drink sake as often as I would like because of the many international competitions I have to attend.

In addition to the Niimasa he drank this day, his favorite brands are Jikon and Jyushiyo.

I would like to visit a sake brewery someday, but I have to play in the winter and spring when brewing takes place,” he says with a laugh.

After a visit to his favorite sushi restaurant, Fujisawa traveled to Canada to participate in the Grand Slam, a tournament in which only the top-ranked teams in the world are allowed to compete. He made it to the top four, showing his ability as one of the world’s top teams.

At the end of October, he also represented Japan at the Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, where he was crowned the first champion. After that, they will aim to gain momentum by winning back-to-back championships at the Japan Championships opening on January 28, and then win their first championship at the World Championships scheduled to be held in Sweden in March.

I want to win all the Grand Slams, the Japanese Championships, the World Championships, and the Olympics, as I think everyone does as an athlete. I’m the youngest, so I’m selfish. I want to be the best at everything.

She first touched a curling stone when she was five years old. Even his father, who was the most skilled player in the family, “I really thought, ‘I can win, I don’t want to lose,’ without any evidence. I really thought, ‘I can win, I don’t want to lose.

This season, his youngest son, who is a winner, has built a successful career and is now the chairman of the Athletes’ Committee to give back to his family. When she becomes the world’s No. 1, she will bring new assets to the Japanese curling world.

Satsuki Fujisawa: Born on May 24, 1991 in Kitami, Hokkaido. She won a bronze medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics in 2006 and a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics last February, making her one of the world’s top skippers. Hobbies are golf and vegetable gardening.