The Japanese Ladies’ Team Pursuit Speed Skating team have won a silver medal for Japan on the second last day of competition. The team of Hozumi Masako, Kodaira Nao, and Tabata Maki (and reserve, 15 year old Takagi Miho) defeated Korea in the quarter final by 4.56 seconds, before meeting Poland in the semi final. [...]
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Written By: guyjin on February 28, 2010
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Written By: guyjin on February 27, 2010
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If you live in Japan and watched even a moment of television over the last week, you have heard of Asada Mao. The nation’s media have been frantic in their hopes that surely, after two weeks of competition, somehow the Japanese team would win their first gold medal. And none in the team were better [...]
Written By: guyjin on February 16, 2010
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Japan has claimed it’s first medals of the Vancouver games, claiming the silver and bronze medals in the Men’s 500m Speed Skating. Nagashima Keiichiro (27) won the silver medal, and Kato Joji (25) took the bronze, with the two Japanese skaters just 0.16 and 0.19 seconds respectively behind gold medalist Mo Tae-Bum of Korea. Korea’s [...]
