Topic: Japan

Hosts Kazakhstan continued their winning run at the Asian Winter Games on Friday, earning five more gold medals.The performance allowed the Kazakhs to gain an impressive lead in the Games medal table with 23 gold medals and 56 overall, while second-placed South ...

Kim wins second gold at Asian Games

South Korean alpine skier Kim Sun Joo won her second gold medal at the Asian Winter Games here on Tuesday finishing with a time of one minute 10.83sec in the women's Super-G event."I'm pleased with my performance here both today and overall ...
This type of skiing is thought to have been started by Odd Kjelsberg of Winterhur, Switzerland in 1889. Among these are North America , Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand . North America uses a series of colored shapes to advise skiers ...

Japan's Kano takes super-G gold

Japan's Akira Kano on Friday captured the Alpine skiing super-G (sitting) gold at the Paralympics for his second medal of the 2010 Games.The 24-year-old, who won the bronze in Thursday's downhill, won in a time of 1min 19.98sec with Germany's Martin Braxenthaler ...