Mao Asada won NHK cup and step to Grand prix final.

The figure skater, Mao Asada, about whom I wrote in the last blog entry
won the competition and was entitled to entering Grand Prix Final.
She tried a new thing nobody has done before: doing a triple axel jump twice
in a performance. The result of the challenge was... She did it!!
But... the judges thought the spin of the jump was not enough to recognize as triple axel. So technically she didn't succeed. But it doesn't matter.
She thought she did it. This is her 6th win of the GP. This is a record of a Japanese figure skater and she is still 18 years old.

In the Grand Prix Final, she has to compete with her rival, Kim Yona, again.
Mao Asada lost to Kim Yona in the 2006 and 2007 Grand Prix Final.
This time the Grand Prix Final takes place in Korea. So it will be so hard for Mao Asada to win the competition.
But we Japanese hope she wins.