Life
Chinen is the son of Takashi Chinen (born 1967), a Japanese former gymnast who won a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He is named after Yuri Osawa, an announcer, whose name his mother liked, but is written with different characters; the yu is a character often used in girl’s names (侑 yū) and the ri is taken from Li (李), a surname his mother thought common among Chinese gold medalist gymnasts.
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