Pedobear on ice

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Ami Koga & Francis Boudreau-Audet
International Figure Skating Magazine | 2015-Apr-16
...Japan’s Ami Koga, 16, and Francis Boudreau-Audet, 21, will make their senior debut at the World Team Trophy. The duo were named to the team following the recent split of Narumi Takahashi and Ryuichi Kihara...
...Ami Koga trains in Canada with Richard Gauthier, but her road there took a more circuitous route due to her family circumstances.
"I was born in Fukuoka and when I was still a baby I moved to China because my father is Chinese," Koga explained. "My grandfather and my grandmother on my mother’s side are still in Fukuoka, so I used to go once a year for summer vacation when I was younger, but I’ve never lived in Japan."
Despite spending most of her formative years in China, her parents made sure that she never lost the connection to the country of her birth. "I went to a Japanese school in Beijing, so the system of education was Japanese. The textbooks and everything was the same as in Japan."...
...a scout for new male pairs talent..discovered Boudreau-Audet at a regional competition and Koga eventually teamed up with him.
“It’s funny because Richard told me before we got on the ice at Junior Worlds where he saw me for the first time,” Boudreau-Audet recalled. “The Quebec organization thought I might skate for Quebec, but it happened to be for Japan instead.”...
...With every team that represents Japan where one of the partners is not a Japanese national, the thorny issue of whether or not they will be able to compete at the Olympics crops up, given Japan’s strict citizenship rules...
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[matsuki]

With every team that represents Japan where one of the partners is not a Japanese national, the thorny issue of whether or not they will be able to compete at the Olympics crops up, given Japan’s strict citizenship rules

If they do well, "yappari nihonjin" and if they suck "aitsu ha nihonjin ja nai kara saaaaa"