<figure id="attachment_385367" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 822px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-385367"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="42d1778d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/08/a822188359499ff7454269a3664f008e.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-385367" class="wp-caption-text">Former Japanese national table tennis player Yoshizumi Ishikawa (left), who is still &#8220;new&#8221; as an anchor, and Shuzo Matsuoka, who is even called the cheerleader of Japan. &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
The Paris Olympics, where the games continue to heat up, is as much of a &#8220;big day&#8221; for the newscasters who cover the games as it is for the athletes.
 The Olympics are a big global event. There are a lot of people who want to cover the Olympics and join our station.
 Each station holds a meeting to decide which announcers will be able to cover the Olympics. Ace sports announcers with a certain amount of career experience are assigned to each station.
Among the announcers, NHK&#8217;s Anna Nakagawa was the first to make the headlines on the Internet.
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She reported from Trocadero Square near the Eiffel Tower at the opening ceremony held in the early morning of July 27 (Japan time). Wearing a beige innerwear that blended in with her skin, Nakagawa was the subject of a lot of online criticism.
 For a moment, it looked like she was naked.
 &#8220;She didn&#8217;t need to wear this. &#8230;&#8230;
Nakagawa was not trying to look naked, but rather, she was trying to show off her skin. She did not intend to look naked.
 Some people at the station were sympathetic to her. She was surprised to see it being talked about on the Internet, and she regrets that she should have paid more attention to the details,&#8221; an NHK official said.
(NHK official).
Fuji Television&#8217;s Daisei Kurata, a veteran of 21 years with the company, is also being teased.
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Kurata was in charge of live coverage of the women&#8217;s skateboarding street at the Paris Olympics following the Tokyo Olympics. The moment 14-year-old Koi Yoshizawa, ranked No. 1 in the world, won the gold medal.
 &#8220;The 14-year-old who fell in love with the gold medal!
she announced. This was greeted with some controversy on social networking sites,
 &#8220;She&#8217;s aiming too high!
 I can&#8217;t concentrate on the competition.
I can&#8217;t concentrate on the competition,&#8221; were some of the criticisms. When asked about it, the announcer said, &#8220;She is the type of person who thinks of phrases in advance.
 She is the type of person who thinks of phrases in advance,&#8221; said a Fuji Television representative.
When Nishiya Kabata, 13 years old at the time, won the gold medal at the last competition, she said, &#8220;The famous phrase will remain for decades,
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&#8216;Thirteen years old, a great midsummer adventure!&#8217;
Kurata is a 13-year-old girl who has had a great summer adventure! Yahagi Kane of the comedy duo &#8220;Ogi Yahagi&#8221; responded to Kurata on his radio show, &#8220;But I&#8217;m going for it, right?
 But he&#8217;s going for it, isn&#8217;t he? It&#8217;s tough.
Hiroaki Ogi also expressed his sympathy. Hiroaki Ogi was also sympathetic.
 Hiroaki Ogi also expressed his sympathy, saying, &#8220;Even 10 or 20 years from now, the actual situation will be used for a long time. It will remain in everyone&#8217;s memory, so this is good.
He followed up by saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s good that you bought it because it will be remembered by everyone.
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The other announcer who drew criticism was the &#8220;hot-blooded&#8221; Shuzo Matsuoka.
He appeared as a special booster for TV Asahi at the women&#8217;s basketball game &#8220;Japan vs.
 Japan came out of a difficult first half to gain momentum.
 I think we have the most powerful team. What are your thoughts?
Hayashi responded sincerely. Hayashi responded sincerely, but the Internet commented
 Interviews during halftime are annoying.
 Let them concentrate on the game.
Let him concentrate on the match. Some members of the media covering the event also commented.
 Matsuoka-san is an athlete. She may have just complied with the TV station&#8217;s request, but I wish she would have refused.
Some of them said, &#8220;Mr. Matsuoka is a person on the athlete&#8217;s side.
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NHK&#8217;s athlete navigator, Kohei Uchimura, a &#8220;legend&#8221; who won two consecutive individual all-around titles in the gymnastics Olympics, is also being used as a source of controversy. In contrast to Shuzo Matsuoka&#8217;s fiery reports, Uchimura&#8217;s unemotional and nonchalant manner of speaking was met with criticism from the audience.
 Is he going to do it?
 Is he sleepy?
 &#8220;This is good.
This is good. Furthermore, Uchimura was not present at the moment Oka Shinnosuke, competing for the first time in gymnastics, won the gold medal in the men&#8217;s individual all-around final on March 31. He was reporting on the swimming race right behind the fierce competition.
Although it was unavoidable due to the contract with NHK,
 But it&#8217;s not right to treat the king of the gymnastics world like this.
 &#8220;Why is he at the swimming competition?
 What kind of arrangement is he making?
What kind of leadership is this?
On the other hand, former table tennis silver medalist Yoshizumi Ishikawa, who was appointed as a special anchor by Fuji Television, has been highly praised. Her good looks and precise use of language have earned her an ever-increasing reputation. She was the best thing to come out of this tournament,&#8221; she said.
 It is said by a TV station official, &#8220;This is the best harvest of this tournament.
(a TV station official), who said, &#8220;This is the best thing that has happened at this tournament.
In the previous tournament, Ai Fukuhara, a senior player, played that major role, but due to a series of adultery scandals, she was not available for the tournament. &#8230;&#8230; Finally, on &#8220;Weibo,&#8221; the Chinese version of X, the Chinese pair of Wang Chuxiqin and Sun Ying Lufthansa, who won the first gold medal in a table tennis event, were told
 Congratulations!
and other congratulatory comments in Chinese. He appealed to the Chinese audience to &#8220;switch to China.
 China is a major table tennis country. She is still very well known and popular in China because of her participation in the Chinese Super League. I think the day will come when Ms. Fukuhara will be used as an anchor over there.
The Paris Olympics have only a little over a week left. We cannot take our eyes off of them until the very end.

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