Japan won the bronze medal in the men's team ski jumping final at the Sochi Games on Monday.
Japan's 17-year-old sensation Sara Takanashi pledged to pull out all the stops to become the first woman to win a Winter Olympic ski jumping gold medal after arriving in Sochi in the early hours of Tuesday morning. 
Japanese ski jumper Sara Takanashi won her second World Cup event in two days on Sunday, cementing her status as favorite for Olympic gold in Sochi. 
Japan's Sara Takanashi took second in Sunday's women's ski jumping World Cup competition.
Veteran Noriaki Kasai, Japan's delegation captain for next month's Sochi Olympics, scored his fourth podium finish of the season when he took third place at a World Cup jump in Sapporo on Saturday. 
Top ski jumper Sara Takanashi and other women's national team members left Japan on Jan. 22 for a tour of Europe and the Sochi Olympics, which starts on Feb. 7. 
Aiko Uemura was named to Japan's Winter Olympics team for the fifth time on Monday, when the Ski Association of Japan added more athletes to the squad it is sending to Sochi next month. 
Ageless wonder Noriaki Kasai will be the captain of Japan's team at next month's Sochi Winter Olympics, while veteran women's curler Ayumi Ogasawara will bear the national flag, the Japan Olympic Committee said Tuesday. 
Ageless wonder Noriaki Kasai will be the captain of Japan's team at next month's Sochi Winter Olympics, while veteran women's curler Ayumi Ogasawara will bear the national flag, the Japan Olympic Committee said Tuesday. 
Women's ski jumping World Cup leader Sara Takanashi took first place on Sunday to earn her second straight Cup victory. 
Japan's 41-year-old Noriaki Kasai became the oldest ski jumper to win on the World Cup circuit Saturday with a victory in a ski flying event in Austria. 
Japanese teenager Sara Takanashi won the women's ski jump World Cup event on Saturday to claim her fifth title of the season and bolster her status as favorite for the Sochi Olympics. 
Japan's Sara Takanashi reached her fifth straight World Cup podium on Saturday, but failed to take first prize for the first time this season. 
Sara Takanashi prevailed again Sunday with a third straight victory of the World Cup season.