Saori Yoshida, 43, three-time Olympic champion in women’s wrestling, appeared as a guest on ABC TV’s “This is an aside…” broadcast late at night on August 8. She was asked about her love life during her active career. She appeared with her good friend and junior wrestler Eri Tosaka (32), a gold medalist in the women’s 48kg wrestling class at the Rio Olympics, and answered questions from female junior and senior high school students who are working hard at wrestling. When asked, “Did you have a love life during your active career?” Ms. Yoshida replied, “I went to a women’s college and there were only girls there. I met male wrestlers at matches, so there were wrestlers who dated other wrestlers, but I really didn’t.” “I thought I could get married at any time,” she replied. I thought I could get married at any time, so I tried to concentrate on wrestling while I was active. I thought I could get married at any time, so I tried to focus on wrestling while I was still active, but I still couldn’t get married! Kendo Kobayashi commented, “The strongest comic story in the primate world! Kendo Kobayashi said. Kendo-Kobayashi said, “You two are meat-eaters, after all. Tosaka confessed, “We had a lot of free time between matches, so we (Yoshida-san and I) used to look at the men we liked from the audience. I was looking at him from the audience. He was so cool! She said that she never went out for dinner with him or anything like that. When Tosaka told Yoshida that she had always declared her preference for Saori, Yoshida smiled and said, “That’s right, that’s right. By the way, who is she? He mentioned Ryutaro Matsumoto, a bronze medalist in the men’s 60-kilogram Greco-Roman weight class at the London Olympics. No progress was made, he said, but Yoshida laughed and said, “I did approach him quite a bit,” he said. When we have dinner together, I’m the type of person who says, ‘I like you, I like you,’ or ‘You’re so cool. If I like them, I say I like them. I want to tell them! It makes the person who says it happy to hear it. But if I went too far, he would pull away. Tosaka is married to Kazuma Kuramoto, a former wrestler and mixed martial artist. From the time she was watching from the audience at a match, she said, “I have always been pushing for my current husband. Five to seven years after they met, they began going out for dinner and he confessed his love for her, but she could not say yes immediately and consulted with Mr. Yoshida. Mr. Yoshida said, “Why don’t you try going out with him once and if it doesn’t work out, just break up with him? I told him that if anything happened to him, I would help him. Then we got married. Thanks to whom? Tosaka was satisfied with her immediate answer, “It was Ms. Saori.
