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Who is Yuki Ohno?
“There is no deeper love on earth than that of a parent for his son.” With those quotes, about the power father-son combo in sports today. From Olympic gold to induction into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame, Apolo Ohno has only one person to thank: his father, Yuki Ohno.
Yuki Ohno’s Early life
Yuki Ohno was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, and left the country when he was 18 years old.
He worked as a hairdresser for the professor until arriving in Seattle, Washington in 1980.
Ohno is thought to be in his mid-fifties because there is no definite date of his birth.
He is an American citizen with a South Asian ethnic background.
Yuki Ohno’s Relationship
Yuki met an American lady, Jerrie Lee, after settling in the United States.
The couple fell in love and eventually married.
Apolo Yuki, the couple’s first and only child, was born in 1982.
However, the couple divorced, with Yuki obtaining custody of his son.
Yuki, who frequently worked 12-hour days, had never considered expanding his family in the United States.
He named his son Apolo after the Greek words apo, which means “avoid,” and lo, which means “be on the watch; here he comes.”
His wife is no longer with him, but he has Apolo Yuki, the love of his life.
He fought to raise his kid as a single parent, but despite his best efforts, by the time Apolo reached his early teens, he was already in severe danger.
Apolo was also interested in sports and was a skilled swimmer and inline skater.
Yuki did everything he could to push his son to choose sports over crime, so when Apolo saw short-track speed skating on television during the Lillehammer Olympics in 1994 and decided he wanted to try it, Yuki drove him to events all over the country.
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Apolo Ohno Is America’s Most Decorated Olympian.
Apolo Ohno, born on May 22, 1982, began full-time training in 1996.
He has become the face of short track in the United States since winning medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
In addition, he was the youngest US national champion in 1997, at the age of 14, and reigned as champion from 2001 until 2009, earning the title a total of 12 times.
Apolo won a World Cup event championship in December 1999, being the youngest skater to do so.
He also became the first American to win a World Cup overall title in 2001, which he repeated in 2003 and 2005.
He has eight Winter Olympics medals (two gold, two silver, and four bronze).
In 2019, he was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame.
