Foreign Skaters Get Lively In Nagano

[Mulboyne]

The International Skating Union held a World Single Distances Speed Skating Championship in Nagano with the final day on Sunday. Kyodo reports (Japanese) that the event finished with a party, after which some foreign skaters went on to a local bar. According to the Japan Skating Federation, things got lively and someone set off a fire extinguisher in the building. The owner of a nearby restaurant also says he saw a white guy breaking a wine bottle. Police were called but the group fled before they arrived. The Federation did not reveal any names but said that a group of skaters later visited the bar to apologize and that no Japanese skaters were involved in the incident.

[Visitor K]

what? no DJ vigilante justice?
im just relieved that no japanese skaters were involved, i mean im sure even the super respectful and law-abiding japanese can get negatively influenced from hanging around with white guys breaking bottles.

who knew that ice skaters partied like that anyway?