“I really risked everything in the second run because I wanted not just the medal, I wanted the gold medal,” the Swiss champion said.
The 25-year-old becomes only the second Japanese to medal on both hills at the same Olympics, after Kazuyoshi Funaki in 1998 in Nagano.
Morishige finishes 0.17 seconds off the pace in his first Olympic race, while Japan exhibits top-notch form in the women’s quarterfinals.
Skip Satsuki Fujisawa’s 97% accuracy in the draw was instrumental in the team’s result.
After consecutive runner-up finishes in Sochi and Pyeongchang, the 23-year-old collects the top Olympic prize in Beijing.
Misaki Oshigiri and Momoka Horikawa, Japan’s two skaters in the event, set personal-best times.
American Chloe Kim defended her Olympic title with a top score of 94.00 points on her first run, while Tomita became the first Japanese female medalist...
Disappointment is a powerful motivational tool for an athlete that the 25-year-old Ando can use to improve her performance as she aims to put Japan on...
The Pyeongchang silver medalist could never recover from a sub-par jump on the normal hill.
Hanae Kubo scored the dramatic winning goal in Japan’s final match of the ice hockey tournament's preliminary round.
Dutch superstar Ireen Wust defended her 2018 Pyeongchang Games title and collected her sixth overall Olympic gold to hold off Takagi’s title quest.
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