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Miho Takagi skates during the women's 1,000-meter sprint at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Inzell, Germany, on Thursday.
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Mar 8, 2024
Miho Takagi grabs sprint lead at world championships
Miho Takagi took the lead in the women's sprint standings at the world speed skating championships after placing first in the 1,000 meters and second in the 500 on Thursday.
Miho Takagi stands on the podium after winning the women's 1,000-meter race at the Four Continents Speed Skating Championships in Salt Lake City on Sunday.
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Jan 22, 2024
Miho Takagi skates to victory in 1,000-meter race to claim another gold
Miho Takagi collected another gold medal at the Four Continents Speed Skating Championships on Sunday.
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Mar 6, 2023
Miho Takagi finishes third in 1,500 at world championships
Miho Takagi, the world record holder, could only finish third in the women's 1,500 meters on the final day of the world speedskating championships Sunday.
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Dec 19, 2022
Takagi places second in speed skating World Cup 1,000-meter race
Takagi, who earned gold in the distance at the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, crossed in 1 minute, 13.19 seconds, 0.66 behind the winner on the final day of the meet in Calgary.
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Oct 21, 2022
Olympic gold medalist Nao Kodaira set for career finale
During her illustrious career, Kodaira won 37 consecutive 500-meter events in Japan and overseas between 2016 and 2019.
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Aug 10, 2022
Olympic speed skating medalist gets 18-month ban for post-party crash
Kim Min-seok, a three-time Winter Games medalist, crashed his car into a barrier while driving fellow skaters to their dormitory following a birthday party at the national training center.
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Mar 8, 2022
Miho Takagi beaten to world allround title by Schouten
Two weeks after the Beijing Games, where she won four medals including two golds, Takagi was unable to muster her usual pace in the short distance events due to fatigue.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 6, 2022
Swedish Olympic speed skater Van der Poel ends Dutch monopoly in men's 5,000 meter
Sweden's Nils van der Poel stormed to victory in Olympic speed skating with a record time of six minutes 08.84 seconds.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Dec 31, 2021
Nana Takagi and Seitaro Ichinohe book Olympic speedskating spots at 1,500 meters
Takagi clocked 1 minute, 54.84 seconds to finish second in the event won by her younger sister Miho in 1:53:19 at the M-Wave ice arena in Nagano.
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Nov 14, 2021
Masahito Obayashi earns shock mass start win at World Cup event
The 27-year-old earned 66 sprint points to beat out Russia's Ruslan Zakharov despite barely qualifying for the final on Day 2 of the World Cup opening round in Poland.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2020
Warp speed for clean energy? That won't work.
It might it be easier for the government to subsidize battery research, rather than pre-ordering particular battery units for later distribution? Maybe so, and it would be smart policy.
Japan Times
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Feb 29, 2020
Miho Takagi, Tatsuya Shinhama lead chase for world sprint titles
Miho Takagi won two races to lead the women's sprint standings at the ISU World Sprint and Allround Speed Skating Championships on Friday, while countryman Tatsuya Shinhama also positioned himself atop the men's standings.
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Nov 17, 2019
Nao Kodaira's 23-race World Cup 500-meter win streak ends
Nao Kodaira lost a speedskating World Cup women's 500-meter race for the first time in four seasons when she finished third on Saturday.
WORLD
Sep 3, 2019
U.K. high-speed rail link is £20 billion over budget and up to five years behind schedule, government says
A proposed high-speed rail project to improve links from London to central and northern England will cost about £20 billion more than originally expected and is up to five years behind schedule, the government said on Tuesday.
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Mar 4, 2019
Martina Sablikova overtakes Miho Takagi to win allround speedskating world title
Miho Takagi fell short in her bid for back-to-back titles at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships on Sunday, finishing second behind the Czech Republic's Martina Sablikova.
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Mar 3, 2019
Miho Takagi races to top of leaderboard after first day first day of allround world championships
Defending champion Miho Takagi won the 500-meter race by a wide margin to claim the lead in the women's competition on Saturday, the first day of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships.
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Feb 25, 2019
Nao Kodaira defends lead to capture world title
Nao Kodaira claimed the women's overall title for the first time in two years at the ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in Heereveen on Sunday.
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Feb 24, 2019
Nao Kodaira sprints to top of standings at worlds
Nao Kodaira won the first 500-meter race and finished fourth in the 1,000 to position herself at the top of the women's standings at the ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships on Saturday.
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Feb 11, 2019
Miho Takagi cruises to 1,500 silver on final day of worlds
Pyeongchang Olympic silver medalist Miho Takagi finished second in the women's 1,500-meter race on Sunday, the final day of the ISU World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 28, 2019
Germans need their freedom to speed
Autobahn speed limits would reduce carbon emissions and save some lives. They should be rejected anyway.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Yen inches closer to intervention point as BOJ meeting starts
The rate of the yen against the U.S. dollar is displayed in the trading room at foreign exchange brokerage Gaitame.com in Tokyo on Thursday.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.

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