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Figure Skating
Mar 26, 2023

Historic world title haul offers glimpse of Japan's 'post-Hanyu' era

Four days of thrilling and uplifting figure skating at last week's world championships in Saitama saw host Japan assert its position as the sport's dominant nation.
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Figure Skating
Mar 24, 2023

'Rikuryu' coach Bruno Marcotte has Olympic hopes after Grand Slam

As they aim for Olympic success, Marcotte hopes that Miura and Kihara’s success will encourage more Japanese skaters and coaches to get involved in the discipline.
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Figure Skating
Mar 23, 2023

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara take historic pairs gold at figure skating worlds

Skating nearly without error to “Atlas: Two,” the pair earned a score of 141.44 for a combined score of 221.16.
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SUMO
Mar 23, 2023

Amateur yokozuna Daiki Nakamura joins Nishonoseki stable

The NSSU graduate's extensive list of titles in amateur sumo will allow him to start his professional career in May at the rank of makushita 10 (tsukedashi) in the third tier.
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Rugby
Mar 21, 2023

Robertson to succeed Foster as All Blacks head coach after Rugby World Cup

Appointed on a four-year deal, Scott Robertson's contract will see him through to the end of the 2027 World Cup in Australia.
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MORE SPORTS / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Mar 20, 2023

Obihiro reducing parents’ burden to help retain young skaters

The change saw the number of junior high school students newly joining the team double in 2022.
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MORE SPORTS / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Mar 20, 2023

Obihiro in need of balancing act to secure skating rink for children

Overall participation in skating has decreased in the Hokkaido city, and officials believe that access to local facilities is key to expanding the sport.
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BASEBALL
Mar 18, 2023

Baseball icon Miguel Cabrera soaks up a lot of lasts at World Baseball Classic

As Cabrera, 39, gets ready to hang up his spikes, he is soaking up a lot of lasts, starting with his fifth and final World Baseball Classic.
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MORE SPORTS
Mar 17, 2023

Germany cancels fencing event after athletes from Russia and Belarus allowed to compete

Germany's fencing federation has canceled a women's foil World Cup event after the sport's global governing body (FIE) reversed a ban on athletes from Russia and its ally Belarus, it said on Thursday.
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MORE SPORTS
Mar 16, 2023

Skis, songs and shots at a supremely Norwegian sports festival

To picture the festival’s scale, and its vibe, think Scandinavian Super Bowl crossed with New York City Marathon.
SUMO / Basho reports
Mar 15, 2023

Abi deals blow to Takakeisho's yokozuna promotion hopes

No. 5 Midorifuji, No. 7 Takayasu, No. 10 Nishikifuji and top-tier makuuchi debutant No. 15 Hokuseiho all earned their fourth wins to join Daieisho as co-leaders.
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OLYMPICS
Mar 15, 2023

Paris 2024 chief says IOC has 'last word' on Russian inclusion

Tony Estanguet, the head of the Paris Olympics organizing committee, said in an interview to mark 500 days before the start of the 2024 Summer Games that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would have the "last word" on whether athletes from Russian and Belarus will be allowed to compete next year....
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 15, 2023

Australia skipper Dave Nilsson would welcome chance to manage in NPB

Baseball continues to bring the former Dragon back to Japan, and each trip has only reinforced the idea that the challenge of leading an NPB team is one he would gladly take on.
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OLYMPICS
Mar 13, 2023

Seoul to bid for 2036 Games without Pyongyang, says mayor

Seoul will remain flexible to the idea of holding a few events in the Demilitarized Zone or Pyongyang if relations improve enough by that time.
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BASKETBALL
Mar 13, 2023

South Carolina tops NCAA women’s tournament field

The 2023 tournament will formally open Wednesday when the first play-in games will be contested.
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CULTURE / Books
Mar 13, 2023

Osamu Dazai gets silly while facing fears in 'The Flowers of Buffoonery'

Translator Sam Bett brings out the fragile personalities in the author's early novella, a predecessor to his modern classic novel “No Longer Human.'
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BASEBALL
Mar 12, 2023

Japan cruises past Czech Republic for third straight win at World Baseball Classic

Roki Sasaki struck out eight and Masataka Yoshida had another big day.
BASEBALL
Mar 11, 2023

Kensuke Kondo emerging as key member of Samurai Japan lineup at World Baseball Classic

Kondo has played a big role for Samurai Japan as the batter between Lars Nootbaar and Shohei Ohtani.
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MORE SPORTS
Mar 9, 2023

Myanmar traditional boxing packs a punch — also a kick and a headbutt

Traditional Lethwei tournaments are now in front of big crowds again following the pandemic.
BASEBALL
Mar 7, 2023

Tim Atherton still gets 'chills' pitching for Australia

The 33-year-old right-hander says he and his teammates will enter the World Baseball Classic with confidence, even if the odds are against them.
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MORE SPORTS
Mar 5, 2023

Jones returns to crush Gane and win UFC heavyweight crown

The 35-year-old American, who is widely considered to be the greatest mixed martial artist of all time, used all his skill and experience to outfox his 32-year-old French opponent.
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WORLD
Mar 5, 2023

Nations agree on language for historic treaty to protect ocean life

The legally binding agreement to conserve and ensure the sustainable use of ocean biodiversity was agreed to after five rounds of protracted United Nations-led negotiations.
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MORE SPORTS
Mar 5, 2023

Nontraditional runners are finding their stride online

The organizers of many of running groups that were established to welcome people of various races, ethnicities, life stages or speeds often share a similar story.
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BASEBALL
Mar 3, 2023

Dave Nilsson pushing Team Australia hard ahead of World Baseball Classic

Australia will face South Korea in his first game at the World Baseball Classic.
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SOCCER
Mar 2, 2023

Olympian Charmaine Crooks is first woman to lead Canada Soccer

Crooks was the first Canadian to compete in five Olympic Games and held the position of vice-president of Canada Soccer for the past two years.

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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight