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...Japan, an Asada victory would cement the growing dominance of that country's skating program: the reigning Olympic champion, Shizuka Arakawa, earned the Land of the Rising Sun's first figure-skating gold medal in 2006, and Daisuke Takahashi pumped out an energetic and technically demanding performance last week to win the country's first men's medal ever, a bronze. (See 25 Olympic athletes to watch...
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...coverage of the Winter Olympics in Torino, the big story I found was about the doping controversy involving Austrian skiers - nothing about the positive aspects of the Olympics. What about the "clean" participants? What about the results of competitions? There was only a short "People" item on Shizuka Arakawa, the gold medalist in figure skating - and it was unfair. She is not, as you said, "a little-known Japanese figure skater." She is the winner of the 2004 World Championship, held in Dortmund, Germany. At Torino she did not, as you reported, "become a surprise star by keeping her tush...
...Torino, the only athlete left to salvage Japan's underwhelming performance was 24-year-old women's figure skater Shizuka Arakawa, clinging to third place going into the long-program event. Arakawa may have been the 2004 world champion, but all week the who-will-get-gold headlines belonged to the frontrunners, America's Sasha Cohen and Russia's Irina Slutskaya. "[Arakawa] is among the top-three girls," her coach Nikolai Morozov told TIME in the run-up to Torino. "She now has to work on building more confidence in herself...
...with each successive day without medals, Japanese newspapers were showing little confidence in the nation's winter athletes. Articles on Arakawa's medal chase battled for prime space in the sports pages with stories on baseball spring training. None of that, however, seemed to bother Arakawa during her free skate. After Cohen's spill-filled routine dashed the American's hopes for gold, the elegant Japanese scored five clean triples and a signature back-bend to notch a personal-best score of 125.32 in the long program. Slutskaya, who skated last, was no match and came in third behind Cohen...