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Arakawa
presented with 7,000,000 Yen diamond
tiara "ribbon of ice"
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Torino,
February 26 - SShizuka
Arakawa, winner of the Ladies Figure Skating
Gold Medal at the Torino Winter Olympics has
received a gold and diamond studded tiara.
The crown style hair ornament was presented
to the Olympic Champion prior to the closing
of the Torino games on Sunday. Japan's
first ever Ladies Olympic Champion expressed
shock and happiness at the gift.
"I'm really happy to have received something
so fantastic," Arakawa said after receiving
the tiara on Sunday. "I want to look at it
(in a mirror)."
The tiara which is named "Ribbon of
Ice" is designed as several spirals of
thin circular ribbon-like gold bands that
represent spirals on the ice. It contains
2.5 carats of tiny diamonds covering the
gold band and is worth $60,000 U.S. dollars.
The creation of the Tiara was a
collaboration between the Turin State
government of Piemonte gold workmanship
association which produced the band from a
contest winning design by a female student
studying at the European Design Institute of
Torino.
Arakawa
is shown wearing the tiara in the photo
(right) which celebrates her winning the
Olympic Gold Medal.
(Kyodo News
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