• Japan's Noriaki Kasai makes an attempt during the ski jumping large hill team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. | AP
    Japan's Noriaki Kasai makes an attempt during the ski jumping large hill team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. | AP
  • Japanese jumpers (from left) Reruhi Shimizu, Taku Takeuchi, Daiki Ito, Noriaki Kasai celebrate after earning the bronze in the ski jumping large hill team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. | KYODO
    Japanese jumpers (from left) Reruhi Shimizu, Taku Takeuchi, Daiki Ito, Noriaki Kasai celebrate after earning the bronze in the ski jumping large hill team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. | KYODO
  • Germany's Andreas Wank (left) celebrates with his teammates after winning the gold in the ski jumping large hill team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. | AP
    Germany's Andreas Wank (left) celebrates with his teammates after winning the gold in the ski jumping large hill team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. | AP
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Sochi, Russia – Japan captured the bronze medal in the large hill team jump at the Sochi Games on Monday night.

The quartet of Noriaki Kasai, Reruhi Shimizu, Daiki Ito and Taku Takeuchi combined to bring Japan its first medal in the event since winning the gold at the 1998 Nagano Games.

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