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Keirin
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Keirin is a track cycling event that means “racing wheels”. It originated in Japan in 1948 during the aftermath of the second world war and gained Olympic status at the 2000 Sydney games.
Read more »Japan suffer 59-year world championship low
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Japan suffered an embarrassing world championship wipeout on Sunday when for the first time in 59 years their highly-regarded men's team failed to win a title.
Their last hope, double world champion Yasuyuki Muneta missed out on a medal when he suffered a third round loss to Mongolia's Gankhuyag Dorjpalam in their +100kg bout.
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Japanese get bikinis in a twist over Rome flop
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Japan's water babes face an embarrassing inquisition after the country failed to win a single synchronised swimming medal at the world championships in Rome.
'Perma-smiles' wiped off their faces, the Japanese women packed up their nose pegs and spangly costumes after missing out on a world or Olympic medal for the first time.
Read more »Japan 1st, Vietnam 2nd at int’l judo champs in city
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The Vietnam International Judo Championships 2009 wrapped up Sunday in Ho Chi Minh City with Japan coming first, followed by Vietnam and South Korea.
Although Japan. , the origin of judo, sent a young team including university students and provincial athletes, they led the tournament with seven gold, four silver and two bronze medals.
Read more »Harumafuji has no regrets on the road to success
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The Japanese word kawaigari means “doting,” but in the grueling world of sumo it is an ironic euphemism for pushing a wrestler to the very limits of his physical and mental endurance.
It can include beatings with bamboo sticks and choking with sand or salt — and in one infamous case led to the death of a teenage recruit who had tried to flee the privations of his sumo stable.
Read more »Espanyol move for Nakamura
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Espanyol have made a move to sign Celtic midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura, according to the player's agent.
Read more »Where's the Twitter?
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Bid for the 2016 Games in Tokyo has a blog - but does it have a twitter account? The blend between technology,communication and marketing is moving so fast perhaps it needs one?
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Hasegawa bags gold as Japan wins 3 medals
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Shohei Hasegawa won the 55-kilogram title as Japan came away with three medals from four Greco-Roman weight classes
Read more »Is sumo truly the Japanese national sport?
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For the 140 or so years non-Japanese have known of the existence of sumo, many have referred to it as Japan's national sport. But are they correct about the status of this ancient form of wrestling found only in these islands, misinformed entirely, or just partly right?
Read more »Judo: Tsukada qualifies for world championships
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Maki Tsukada qualified for the world judo championships after winning her eighth straight title at the national heavyweight class championships yesterday in Yokohama.
The 27-year-old Tsukada, the Athens Olympic over-78kg champion and Beijing Olympic silver medallist, threw Sae Nakazawa down for an nippon to win the final.
Honda Team to continue in F1 as Brawn GP
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The former Honda Formula One team has been saved and will contest the 2009 season as Brawn GP.
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Some teed off by Japanese media swarming over Ishikawa
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When Ryo Ishikawa made his U.S. PGA Tour debut this month, 30 Japanese media sent more than 100 representatives to the tour to report on him...
Read more »Ex-sumo wrestler held over defrauding 'fiancee'
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A former sumo wrestler was arrested on suspicion of swindling 7.3 million yen from a woman he had proposed to
Read more »Judo champ Uchishiba beats Darbelet in Grand Slam Paris
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Japan's reigning Olympic champion Masato Uchishiba toppled Frenchman Benjamin Darbelet to win the men's 66-kilogram final at the Grand Slam Paris judo meet Saturday.
Read more »Samurai sport lives
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It's called yabusame, and it is the sport of the samurai.
It is about as far from the Olympic sport of archery as it can get. The bow is taller than the person shooting it, and, to the uninitiated, it appears lopsided and unbalanced. There are no sights, no high-tech stabilizers.
Read more »Naka joins Japan's growing injury list
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"I twisted my knee in a practice game," the 30-year-old told Japan's Nikkan Sports. "There's pain on the inside of the knee. I have had an MRI but I've no idea how long it will take to heal."
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Calls to End Japanese Sumo Abuse
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after two thousand years maybe some hidden secrets will be exposed...
Read more »Did keirin buy a place in the Olympics?
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A BBC investigation has raised concerns that the governing body of keirin cycling bought its way, for $3m, into the Olympic Games.
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