<figure id="attachment_467647" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-467647" style="width: 2457px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="2bac9a3c"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/05/0c6522e4c0f290fc08977d022127935c.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-467647" class="wp-caption-text">Born in Hokkaido in 1991. Height 156 cm. Influenced by her family, she started curling at the age of 5. After graduating from Kitami Hokuto High School in Hokkaido, she worked for Chubu Electric Power Company before joining LS Kitami (Loco Solare) in 2003. Won a bronze medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics in &#8217;18 and a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics in &#8217;22.</figcaption></figure>
<h3> A life dedicated to curling</h3>
<p> Canada, USA, Great Britain, and Sweden. &#8230;&#8230; This season alone, Loco Solare&#8217;s Mayuki Fujisawa (34) has traveled all over the world, but while back home in her hometown of Kitami, Hokkaido, she is also an employee of the insurance company &#8220;Consult Japan.</p>
<p> He has been working for the company for 11 years since he joined when he joined Loco Solare, taking time off from his expeditions. He greeted me at the company building with a smile and said, &#8220;Welcome to Kitami! He greeted me with a smile.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I was first certified as an insurance solicitor, and since then, my main job has been to answer the phone and handle the paperwork for insurance policies. Still, it was also a great time for me to learn social skills, as I had been curling all my life.</span></p>
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<p> Since Fujisawa joined the Loco Solare team in 2003, the team has won a silver medal at the World Championships, medals (bronze and silver) at the Olympics, and a Grand Slam championship as a representative of Japan, all of which were firsts in Japanese curling history. Curling, which had been a minor sport, became widely recognized and turned into a top-rated content in viewer ratings for the live broadcast of the Olympics. As a result, Fujisawa spends nearly half of the year on tour, and the days when he can come to work are limited. When she is at the office, she meets with clients who have taken an interest in curling and with local customers who tell her, &#8220;I&#8217;m rooting for you, Rocco Solare.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> She says, &#8220;I&#8217;ve always been taught that the most important thing is to have a relationship of trust with the customer. In curling, trust with teammates is also very important, so there is a strong connection between work and competition.</span></p>
<p> During the time he is in his hometown, he spends his days working at the company, practicing on the ice, and training at the gym. Even when he has time off as part of the team schedule, he often devotes it to individual practice.</p>
<p> After practice, Fujisawa moved to his favorite sushi restaurant, Matsuzushi, in the city, where he enjoyed seafood and other drinks and snacks, and agreed to be interviewed by this writer again.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Basically, I&#8217;m the type of person who likes to go out. If I stay at home all day without doing anything, I feel like I&#8217;ve fallen into a state of debauchery, and I think, &#8216;I&#8217;ve wasted the whole day. I just want to go home to sleep.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p> Rocco Solare, which had a chance to win its third consecutive Olympic medal this season, missed out, and Fujisawa spent the Olympics watching the games for the first time in 12 years, since the Sochi Olympics in 2002. He watched all 11 games of the gold-medal-winning Swedish national team on TV.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> JJ&#8217;s (Jennifer Jones of Canada) team won all the games in Sochi, so I was curious to see if the teams that win at the Olympics are in good shape or have fluctuations throughout the games,&#8221; she said. I didn&#8217;t have time to think about that because I was so full of myself when I competed.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent">　The Swedish team that won the Milan Cortina Olympics had lost to Canada and Korea, and they also managed to win a last-minute game against Denmark. But Anna (Hasselborg/Sweden&#8217;s skip) never wavered in terms of strategy. Even in the beginning of the game, when things were difficult, the whole team thought together and took a timeout. I was able to learn from that kind of unwavering strength.</span></p>
<p> At the same time, the Swedish national team taught me the importance of having fun.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Because it is the Olympics, there is inevitably a lot of pressure,&#8221; she said. But teams like Anna&#8217;s team, who have been on that stage many times, understand that the best thing to do once there is to have fun. I got that impression. That&#8217;s why when I saw the video of my interview in the highlights of past competitions, I thought, &#8216;You&#8217;re talking like you&#8217;re in pain. &#8230;&#8230; It&#8217;s such a waste of a stage that they were looking forward to the Olympics so much and wanted to be there themselves! I thought. It was a competition that I was able to look at objectively.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> In addition to watching the games on TV at home, he also appeared in programs related to the Olympics. The professional figure skaters he performed with left a strong impression on him.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Kanako Murakami, 31, was able to handle her MC duties as efficiently as an announcer, and I was shocked. In the rush of the live broadcast, she put together her comments within the time frame and even gave her own opinions to the staff, saying, &#8216;I think this part could be done a little better. On the one hand, I was amazed that she was still active in the TV industry after retiring from competition, but on the other hand, I realized that it was impossible for me to be active in the TV industry. I&#8217;ve only done curling. &#8230;&#8230;&#8221;</span></p>
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<p> In the May 14 issue of &#8220;FRIDAY May 29&#8221; and the paid version of &#8220;FRIDAY GOLD,&#8221; she talks candidly about her feelings toward her teammates who have left the team and her future career.</p>
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 Soichiro Takeda (sports writer)

 Hiroyuki Komatsu AFLO (4th photo)

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 A life dedicated to curling: Canada, USA, Great Britain, Sweden. ...... This season alone, Loco Solare's Mayuki Fujisawa (34) has traveled all over the world, but while back in her hometown of Kitami City, Hokkaido, she has been working for an insurance company, "Consultage.

 Special interview in her hometown, Kitami City, Hokkaido, Japan From her job at her company, the Olympics she couldn't compete in, bodybuilding, and her future career.

Exclusive Confession] Mayuki Fujisawa Talks All About It at a Sushi Restaurant! I might be a clunker if I wasn’t curling.

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