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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Winter Sports</title>
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		<title>Takanashi rival eyeing Sochi spot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women&#8217;s ski jumping world champion Sarah Hendrickson, the main rival for Japan&#8217;s Olympic gold medal hope Sara Takanashi, said Tuesday she is confident she will be fit enough to jump by mid-January and hopes to make the U.S. Olympic team for Sochi. Hendrickson won the gold medal at the world championships in February but had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi wins overall summer Grand Prix title</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese schoolgirl Sara Takanashi clinched the overall women&#8217;s summer Grand Prix title for the second year in a row with her third win of the season in on Saturday. Takanashi, the reigning individual winter World Cup champion, scored 244.5 points to post a crushing victory over France&#8217;s Coline Mattel after the best first- and second-round [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolland to miss Olympics with injury</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[France&#8217;s world downhill champion Marion Rolland will miss the Sochi Olympics because of a serious injury to her right knee, the French ski federation (FFS) announced Friday. The 30-year-old sustained the injury in a training fall in the Nevados de Chillan mountains in Chile on Sunday. Rolland underwent an MRI scan on her return to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi gets first GP win of season</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s reigning individual World Cup champion Sara Takanashi captured her first Grand Prix title of the season in the third leg of the series in Russia on Friday. The 16-year-old Sochi Olympic gold medal hope led after a first jump of 96.5 meters and followed up with the day&#8217;s longest leap of 98.5 to prevail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi wins summer jump title</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women&#8217;s World Cup champion Sara Takanashi nailed the day&#8217;s longest jump in the second round to win the Myoko summer jump in Niigata Prefecture on Sunday. The 16-year-old Takanashi, a gold medal hope for Japan at next year&#8217;s Sochi Olympics, jumped 96.5 meters before following her first effort up with a leap of 99.5 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi improves in ski jump win</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women&#8217;s World Cup champion Sara Takanashi continued her preparations for next year&#8217;s Sochi Olympics with a superb performance on Sunday. The 16-year-old Takanashi was the only jumper to clear the K point on both jumps, while showing solid form in her Telemark landings, an area that has routinely given her trouble. She cleared 81.5 meters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi sparks Japanese victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teenager Sara Takanashi posted a first-round jump of 105.5 meters to help Japan win the mixed team event at the FIS Ski Jumping Summer Grand Prix in Germany on Saturday. Takanashi, second in the women&#8217;s individual competition on Friday, Yuki Ito, Noriaki Kasai and Yuta Watase scored a combined total of 907.6 points to finish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ski jumper Takanashi finishes second in Summer Grand Prix</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teenager Sara Takanashi placed second in the women&#8217;s competition at the FIS Ski Jumping Summer Grand Prix on Friday. The 16-year-old Takanashi, last year&#8217;s overall World Cup champion, posted the biggest jumps of the day (104 and 103.5 meters), but she failed to muster enough style points on landing and finished second behind Alexandra Pretorius [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi wins summer opener</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last season&#8217;s women&#8217;s World Cup overall champion and Sochi Olympic gold medal hope Sara Takanashi comfortably won the first summer jump event of the season on Sunday. The 16-year-old had a first first-round jump of 59.5 meters and followed it up with the day&#8217;s longest leap of 61.5 to garner a winning total of 228.9 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi places second in Norway</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara Takanashi missed out on a fifth consecutive World Cup ski jump victory Friday, finishing second to American Sarah Hendrickson in Trondheim, Norway, at the season&#8217;s penultimate event. The 16-year-old Takanashi, who has already secured the overall World Cup title, landed the day&#8217;s longest jump of 105 meters and followed it up with a 100-meter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takeda tops Takanashi for ski jump gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women&#8217;s World Cup champion Sara Takanashi was cut down to size by Ayuka Takeda as she finished second at the Ski Jumping National Championships on Saturday. Takanashi took the lead after the first round with an 85.5 meter effort and then had the day&#8217;s longest jump of 86.5 meters, but the 16-year-old defending champion was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skier Ito captures silver at worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miki Ito won her second silver medal of the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in the women&#8217;s dual moguls on Friday. Ito won the silver in the moguls on Wednesday and she admitted she was a little disappointed to have had to make do with another runnerup finish after losing to Canada&#8217;s Justine Dufour-Lapointe in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skier Ito nabs silver at worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miki Ito won the silver medal in the women&#8217;s moguls at the Freestyle Skiing World Championships on Wednesday. American Hannah Kearney took the gold and the bronze went to Canadian Justine Dufour-Lapointe. It was the 25-year-old Ito&#8217;s second world medal after placing second in the dual moguls at the 2009 championships. &#8220;It still hasn&#8217;t sunk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen phenom Takanashi soars to victory in Miyasama International</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara Takanashi won the large hill of the Miyasama International on Sunday. The 16-year-old Takanashi, who also won the normal hill on Friday, managed 136 meters on her first jump and 101 meters on her second. The Sochi Olympic gold medal hopeful totaled 213.6 points, winning by a margin of 145.6 points.]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi, Japan win team gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara Takanashi collected her second medal of the Nordic skiing world championships after Japan won a gold in the mixed team ski jumping Sunday. The 16-year-old Takanashi teamed up with Yuki Ito and male jumpers Daiki Ito and Taku Takeuchi for Japan&#8217;s first gold at the world championships since 2009. Japan scored 1,011.0 points, holding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan leads Nordic combined event at worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan took the lead after the first half of the Nordic combined team event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships on Sunday. The team of Akito and Yoshito Watabe, Yusuke Minato and Taihei Kato surged into the lead in the jumping portion on the K-95 normal hill to go atop the standings with 467.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi grabs silver at worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overall ski jumping World Cup champion Sara Takanashi fell just short in her bid for gold at the FIS World Nordic Ski Championships on Friday, taking a silver medal behind American rival Sarah Hendrickson. The 16-year-old Takanashi, coming off four consecutive World Cup wins, landed jumps of 104.5 and 103 meters for a point total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenage ski jumper Takanashi back in spotlight at world championships</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newly crowned overall ski jumping World Cup champion Sara Takanashi will aim for her first gold medal at the FIS World Nordic Ski Championships on Friday. In an official practice on Thursday, the 16-year-old phenom had a leap of 101 meters to move into first place, but she could only manage 92.5 meters on her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi becomes youngest to claim overall World Cup title</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara Takanashi became the youngest-ever winner of an overall World Cup skiing crown Sunday, claiming the women&#8217;s ski jumping title with her fourth consecutive victory and eighth of the season. The 16-year-old Takanashi marked 89.5 meters in the first round of jumps and followed up with the day&#8217;s longest jump of 92 meters for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hirscher delivers gold for Austria</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austrian star Marcel Hirscher lived up to the expectations of the medal-hungry public in this ski-mad country by winning the men&#8217;s world slalom in dramatic fashion on Sunday. In what was a perfectly choreographed finish to the two-week world ski championships, Hirscher followed up his leading first run with a dramatic dash down the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi moves step closer to title</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara Takanashi edged closer to the overall women&#8217;s ski jumping World Cup title Saturday with her third consecutive victory and seventh of the season. The 16-year-old Takanashi posted the day&#8217;s longest jump of 88.5 meters in the first round and followed up with an 88-meter effort for a winning total of 225.1 points. &#8220;I performed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uemura third in Sochi test run</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aiko Uemura finished third in the women&#8217;s moguls Friday in a World Cup Olympic test event at the venue for the 2014 Winter Games. It was Uemura&#8217;s second podium finish of the campaign following the season-opening competition in the dual moguls in Ruka, Finland, and her first in the moguls since March 2010 at Inawashiro, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiraoka claims first World Cup win</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taku Hiraoka won a halfpipe snowboarding competition on Thursday to claim his first World Cup title at a test event for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. The 17-year-old Hiraoka coasted into the semifinals in first and earned the highest score of 90.25 points in his first run in the finals. &#8220;My first run in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takeuchi earns runnerup supt in World Cup ski jumping</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ski jumper Taku Takeuchi claimed a personal World Cup best with his second-place finish at a meet in Germany on Wednesday. The 25-year-old Takeuchi, whose only previous podium finish came at Innsbruck in January 2012, landed jumps of 133.5 and 130.5 meters to score 254.6 points. Nineteen-year-old Jaka Hvala of Slovenia took his first World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi takes commanding lead in women&#8217;s ski jumping World Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara Takanashi is poised to win the women&#8217;s ski jumping World Cup title next weekend in Slovenia after the Japanese teen wonder swept a doubleheader at Zao on Sunday, tying a record for most victories in a season. The 16-year-old Takanashi picked up her fifth and sixth victories of the campaign, both over Austria&#8217;s Jacqueline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow postpones World Cup ski jump</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday&#8217;s ski jumping World Cup competition was completely canceled after strong winds continued to howl at Zao Ski Resort. Sunday will feature a doubleheader, with the first competition starting at 8:30 a.m. Friday&#8217;s official training had also been canceled because of heavy snowfall. Overall World Cup leader Sara Takanashi, seeking her fifth victory of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi aims for return to winning ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara Takanashi will look to turn back the clock and recapture her form at Zao last season to snap out of a funk in this weekend&#8217;s World Cup ski jumping. Last week in Sapporo, the 16-year-old Sochi Olympic hopeful missed the podium in back-to-back competitions for the first time this season, including a season-worst 12th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi misses podium finish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teenager Sara Takanashi finished fifth in Sunday&#8217;s World Cup women&#8217;s ski jumping event at Miyamori hill in Hokkaido. The 16-year-old local product landed a pair of 86-meter jumps to amass 225.4 points as she missed a World Cup podium finish for the second straight day and the third time this season. Austria&#8217;s Jacqueline Seifriedsberger took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takanashi struggles at World Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara Takanashi finished 12th in a women&#8217;s World Cup meet on Saturday for her worst placing in over a year. The second jump was delayed and eventually canceled due to high winds at Sapporo&#8217;s Miyanomori-Schanze&#8217;s K-90 normal hill. The 16-year-old Takanashi, who leads the World Cup standings and has four individual gold medals on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Czech competition satisfying, says ski jumper Takanashi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rising star Sara Takanashi said she was satisfied with her winning performance at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in the Czech Republic last week and is hoping to turn it on again for home fans at upcoming World Cup meets in Japan. &#8220;I had two good jumps and it was a satisfying competition,&#8221; the [...]]]></description>
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