TOKYO (TR) – The company for desk tennis star Ai Fukuhara confirmed studies claiming that the two-time Olympic medalist has remarried and is pregnant.
In response to a request for remark from TBS News (Dec. 22), the company for Fukuhara, 37, acknowledged, “At her own request, we have not made matters concerning her private life public, but the published articles are true.”
A local of Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Fukuhara loved nationwide recognition as a desk tennis participant.
Starting with the 2004 Athens Olympics, she competed in 4 consecutive Olympic Games. She received a silver medal within the girls’s workforce occasion on the 2012 London Olympics and a bronze medal within the girls’s workforce occasion on the 2016 Rio Olympics. She retired from lively competitors in 2018.
In 2016, she married former desk tennis participant Jiang Hung-chieh, who represented Taiwan on the Rio Olympics. They have two youngsters — an eight-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son.
Things have been going easily till January 2021, when Fukuhara returned to Japan alone from Taiwan. From then on, they launched into an all-out battle over divorce and custody of the son.
It was in March of the identical 12 months that Fukuhara was reported to be relationship her new husband. While allegations of infidelity on the a part of Fukuhara arose, suspicions of emotional abuse by Jiang additionally emerged.
The divorce was finalized about 4 months later. Fukuhara was subsequently sued by her new husband’s ex-wife for compensation, however the lawsuit was dropped in November 2022.
In March 2024, a press convention was held on the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan to announce a settlement between Fukuhara and Jiang concerning youngster custody.