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<h3><span class="strongInContent"> The bankbook is worth more than I&#8217;ve ever seen!&#8221;</span></h3>
<p> Medalists from last year&#8217;s Paris Olympics were in high demand for special programs on TV stations during the year-end and New Year holidays. Among them, Natsumi Tsunoda, 32, a gold medalist in the women&#8217;s 48-kilogram judo weight class, has been active in programs and events since the Olympics.</p>
<p> In the January 2 broadcast of TV Asahi&#8217;s &#8220;Yume Showdown 2025: The King of Sports is Me, Tonneruzu&#8221;, Kakuda faced off against four other celebrities, including Ky~-Udo Suzuki (54), who holds the first dan in judo, and Yoshinari Fukushima (47), the world jujitsu champion. The fourth competitor, Fukushima, won with 31 seconds remaining in the time limit with his signature move, the Tomoe Nage. He also won the &#8220;pressure archery&#8221; competition with actor Takuya Kimura (52) on TBS&#8217;s &#8220;New Year&#8217;s Eve All-Star Sports Festival,&#8221; which aired on December 31.</p>
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<p> His income also seems to have increased significantly; in a special program on &#8220;Junk SPORTS&#8221; (Fuji TV) broadcast on December 23, when asked about &#8220;how his life has drastically changed after the Paris Olympics,&#8221; he replied, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;My bank book has become an amount of money I have never seen before!</span> I&#8217;ve never seen this amount of money in my bank book before! Although he did not reveal the amount, he answered, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;I had never seen such a</span> large amount of money <span class="strongInContent">in my</span> bankbook <span class="strongInContent">before. I received bonuses from the company and the government. I counted it all at once. I counted it: 1, 10, 100 &#8230;&#8230;. I was so happy.</span> I was <span class="strongInContent">so happy,&#8221; he said</span> with a smile on his face.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The JOC (Japanese Olympic Committee) gave me 5 million yen as a reward for winning the gold medal, but my organization, the All-Japan Judo Federation, gave me zero yen. However, it is clear that her income has increased dramatically due to the &#8220;Olympic bubble,&#8221; including the incentive from SBC Shonan Cosmetic Clinic, to which she belongs, earnings from YouTube, which now has more than 150,000 registered users, and appearance fees for TV programs, events, and LAWSON commercials.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> As a &#8220;reward&#8221; to herself, she uploaded a video on December 30 showing the delivery of her new car, a luxury Japanese-made Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, and in an Instagram update on December 2, she reported that she had invited her coach and parents on a trip to a hot spring as a token of her gratitude. He reported that he had invited his coach and parents to a trip to a hot spring as a thank-you gift. Her popularity is increasing due to her solid use of money,&#8221; said a reporter from a sports newspaper.</span></p>
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<p> Kakuta has become accustomed not only to the physical variety of sports, but also to talk shows, and her latest &#8220;ironclad&#8221; topic is that of her ex-boyfriends. On &#8220;Junk,&#8221; the topic of his love life came up, and when MC Masanori Hamada (61) asked him <span class="strongInContent">if</span> he <span class="strongInContent">was popular with the</span> ladies, he <span class="strongInContent">replied, &#8220;</span> No, no, I&#8217;m not. He shook his head and said, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;No, no, I&#8217;m not popular, I&#8217;m not popular.</span> I <span class="strongInContent">&#8216;</span> m not popular <span class="strongInContent">.</span> I&#8217; <span class="strongInContent">m really</span> not popular <span class="strongInContent">.</span> He continued, &#8220;No, no, I&#8217;m not popular.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I haven&#8217;t had anyone to go out with since we broke up a year ago. I haven&#8217;t met anyone. I thought about using a matching app, but everyone around me stopped me.</span></p>
<p> Then, co-star Wolf Aron (28), a gold medalist in the 100-kilogram weight class at the Tokyo Olympics, revealed <span class="strongInContent">, &#8220;I know Kakuta&#8217;s ex-boyfriend, and I think he likes a sturdy guy.</span> Kakuta laughed.</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">The &#8220;frank&#8221; manner in which he almost reveals his true identity</span></h3>
<p> Also, on the December 24 broadcast of NTV&#8217;s &#8220;Odoru, Sanma Goten,&#8221; she touched on her Christmas memories! Sanma Goten&#8221; on December 24, she talked about her Christmas memories and shared an episode in which she ate a Christmas cake that her ex-boyfriend bought for her even though she was losing weight.</p>
<p> He then explained, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;(My partner) was also a judoist, but he was the type of person who could normally lose about 10 kg in the heavyweight class because losing (weight) is different between the heavyweight class and the lightweight class.</span> Even the MC, Akashiya Sanma (69), was concerned, saying <span class="strongInContent">, &#8220;Are you sure</span> you <span class="strongInContent">can say that much? (laugh).</span></p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> It is a well-known story in judo circles that they started dating around 2006. Her judo style, in which she is good at Tomoe-nage and Newaza, is inherited from her ex-boyfriend. Her ex-boyfriend had won many domestic titles, but he had difficulty winning international competitions and had no luck at the Olympics.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> In a program broadcast after the Paris Olympics, Ms. Tsunoda introduced her ex-boyfriend as a benefactor, and the program also aired her ex-boyfriend watching the gold medal moment in Paris. I don&#8217;t think they were already in a relationship at that time, but winning gold at the Olympics must have fulfilled his &#8220;long-cherished wish&#8221; as well.</span></p>
<p> Kakuta has already announced that she will compete in the All-Japan Women&#8217;s Championships in April this year, which will be contested in the weight division. Although she is probably the lightest weight among the competitors, she has attracted more attention than the others.</p>
<p> If Kakuta can win this tournament and embody the spirit of &#8220;soft wins over hard,&#8221; she is sure to gain even more media exposure.</p>
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 Natsumi Tsunoda, the 48kg Judo gold medalist at the Paris Olympics, has been a regular guest on TV during the year-end and New Year's holidays. She tends to talk about her ex-boyfriend on TV programs, but she actually fulfilled his "long-cherished wish" in Paris last year.

Judo player Natsumi Tsunoda fulfilled the “long-cherished wish” of her “ex-boyfriend,” who is always making fun of her on TV!

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