Two years after collecting four medals, including one gold, at the Beijing Olympics, Miho Takagi won the 1,000- and 1,500-meter world titles in Calgary, Canada.
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Team Japan finished the 2022 Winter Games with 18 medals, collecting top-three finishes in seven different sports.
Skip Satsuki Fujisawa and her teammates handled the pressure of a high-stakes match and played more consistently in a bounce-back win over the Swiss.
Takagi powered across the finish line in 1 minute, 13.18 seconds to help soothe the pain of Japan’s late collapse in the women’s team pursuit final...
Japan, which won Olympic gold in the team pursuit in 2018, held the lead before Takagi slid off the track in dramatic fashion against Canada.
Nao Kodaira, the 2018 Olympic champion, trailed by a wide margin for large stretches of her race and finished 17th.
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.
Misaki Oshigiri and Momoka Horikawa, Japan’s two skaters in the event, set personal-best times.
Hanae Kubo scored the dramatic winning goal in Japan’s final match of the ice hockey tournament's preliminary round.