Akito Watabe won't lie, he's no figure skating freak. And when someone asked him if he, not Yuzuru Hanyu, would have liked to have been the first Japanese gold medalist of the Pyeongchang Olympics, he just grinned.But Watabe, who settled for a close silver in the Nordic combined normal hill 10-kilometer event, said Saturday he was in awe of Hanyu's gold medal-winning performance earlier in the day, that it was nothing short of inspiring."To be perfectly honest, I'm not that interested in figure skating," Watabe said after three training jumps for Tuesday's large hill 10-km race."But the spo…READ FULL ARTICLE
