“You have to play against the best teams to get better,” said Canadian mentor...
Ed Odeven
Ed Odeven is a longtime sports journalist who previously worked for The Japan Times as its chief basketball reporter for nearly 14 years. He also covered a wide range of other sports for the newspaper, including at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Games. A graduate of Arizona State University, Odeven worked for several newspapers in the Grand Canyon State before moving to Japan. He has freelanced for dozens of media outlets around the world.
Japan, which won Olympic gold in the team pursuit in 2018, held the lead...
Nao Kodaira, the 2018 Olympic champion, trailed by a wide margin for large stretches...
Morishige finishes 0.17 seconds off the pace in his first Olympic race, while Japan...
After consecutive runner-up finishes in Sochi and Pyeongchang, the 23-year-old collects the top Olympic...
American Chloe Kim defended her Olympic title with a top score of 94.00 points...
Disappointment is a powerful motivational tool for an athlete that the 25-year-old Ando can...
Jim Armstrong
The Pyeongchang silver medalist could never recover from a sub-par jump on the normal...
Hanae Kubo scored the dramatic winning goal in Japan’s final match of the ice...
Dutch superstar Ireen Wust defended her 2018 Pyeongchang Games title and collected her sixth...
Reira Iwabuchi placed fifth and compatriot Kokomo Murase earned a 10th-place finish in her...
The Gifu Prefecture native earned Japan’s first medal at the Beijing Games.
