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It has been decided that Arashi's Sho Sakurai will be NTV's main newscaster for its coverage of the 2012 London Olympics. This is Sakurai's third time to be appointed as the official newscaster, the first time was in Beijing (2008) and in Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010).
Sakurai started his career as a newscaster for NEWS ZERO last 2006. He is expected to start reporting from the opening on July 27th until it's conclusion on Aug 12th, which he will be expected to report live from London. Sakurai was mainly chosen because he has built a certain camaraderie with other Olympic athletes, such as: such as Kosuke Kitajima (swimming), Ai Fukuhara (table tennis) , and Kyoko Hamaguchi (wrestling). Moreover, Olympic producer Masanori Matsuhara said that, "Sakurai studies documents beforehand, he reports about athletes with respect, and he conveys those reports to the audience in the simplest terms that could be understood."
Sakurai related that he experienced "goosebumps" when he first reported on Beijing Olympics in 2006. "London Olympics would be fiercer, there are lot of athletes in my generation. With this, I really feel honored and I hope that I will be able to convey the athletes' voices to the audience," Sakurai commented after he was chosen.
| Real name | Sho Sakurai |
| Gender | male |
| Birthday | 25 January, 1982 |
| Main occupation | singer/actor (active) |
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Sho Sakurai!!!!~~Good luck for olympic!!~
WWWWOOOOWWWWWWO!!!!!!!
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
good luck, sho-kun ...
yeah~ sasuga sho san ^_^
wow congrats! he really sounds enthusiastic about it
Omodetto Sakurai-san!! So happy for you
again, another reason to be a prod arashi fan. he is so amazing.
best of luck to sho-kun.. i know he'll do great.
oh...that's great.......
I'm so happy 
it is the best chosen 
Good for Sho. Seems like he is a broadcasting career in the works after Arashi.
He is gonna do it well.......love him!
he is sooooooooooo awesome!!!
wooohoooo~~~ i'm so proud of him~~~!!! xDD good luck and have fun!! buy some goodies back for your buddies~~
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amazing, i'm happy for him
yay! thats so awesome!
Wow that is soooo cooool!!!
omg omg sakurai's coming to uk
... just need to get myself to london
Wish he would drop by on the way to London! Ganbatte Sakurai-kun!!
waaaahhh, omg i'm so proud of him!! Go SHO!!! you can do it!