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Figure skating: Retiring Sakamoto grateful for "priceless time" on ice
6+ hour, 8+ min ago (188+ words) KOBE - Japanese figure skating star Kaori Sakamoto called her decorated career "a priceless time" as the four-time world champion held her retirement press conference on Wednesday. The 26-year-old last June announced her decision to end her competitive career after the…...
Figure skating: Retiring Miura, Kihara eye big future for pairs in Japan
2+ week, 1+ day ago (720+ words) TOKYO - Japan's Olympic pairs figure skating champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara revealed Tuesday they decided to retire immediately after winning gold at February's Milan Cortina Winter Games, but they vowed to keep raising the profile of their sporting discipline....
Speed skating: Takagi felt ready to retire as competitive fire faded
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (342+ words) TOKYO - Japanese speed skating great Miho Takagi said Monday she was ready to retire after she "felt her passion gradually fading." Officially announcing her retirement at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan's most decorated female Olympian with 10 Winter Games medals…...
Figure skating: Kagiyama 2nd, Sato 3rd as Malinin wins men's world title
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (200+ words) PRAGUE - Yuma Kagiyama took silver and Shun Sato bronze as U. S. star Ilia Malinin bounced back from his Olympic disappointment by winning his third consecutive men's figure skating world championship in Prague on Saturday. Japanese teammates Kagiyama and Sato repeated their…...
Figure skating: Sato 4th, Kagiyama 6th as Malinin takes big lead at worlds
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (268+ words) PRAGUE - U. S. figure skating star Ilia Malinin took a big lead at the world championships in Prague with an impressive bounce-back performance in the men's short program on Thursday, while Japanese Olympic medalists Shun Sato and Yuma Kagiyama placed fourth and…...
INTERVIEW: Figure skating icon Hanyu hopes performance allay future disaster damage
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (41+ words) Figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu believes it is his mission to maintain the memory of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster that devastated his home region of northeastern Japan, using his talents on the ice to honor its victims....
Paralympics: Japan women make milestone debuts in ice hockey, snowboard
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (14+ words) Japan Wire by KYODO NEWS...
Figure skating: Shimada wins record 4th straight junior world championships
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (169+ words) TALLINN - Japan's Mao Shimada won her fourth straight figure skating junior world championships on Saturday, becoming the first skater to achieve the feat across all the disciplines at the tournament. The 17-year-old was top after the short program on Thursday…...
Figure skating: Rio Nakata wins 2nd straight junior worlds with record score
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (139+ words) TALLINN - Japan's Rio Nakata won back-to-back figure skating junior world championships on Friday, becoming the first male skater from the country to achieve the feat. The 17-year-old scored a junior worlds' record total of 268. 47 points in Tallinn after logging 178. 96 in…...
Olympics: Liu wins women's figure skating gold for U. S. , denying Sakamoto
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (177+ words) MILAN - American Alysa Liu spoiled Japan's women's figure skating party by winning the Milan Cortina Olympic Games gold on Thursday, beating silver medalist Kaori Sakamoto and bronze winner Ami Nakai. Both the Japanese medalists made errors on triple toe loop…...