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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
Yu Hirasawa / Yomiuri Shimbun Sports Writer

UNBELIEVABLE: Watabe finishes 7th in normal hill nordic combined - Caught on Camera

Akito Watabe finishes seventh in the cross-country part of the normal hill Nordic combined at the Beijing Games on Wednesday. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Japan fell short of winning a third consecutive medal in the individual normal hill of Nordic combined on Wednesday.

Akito Watabe had won silver medals in the ski event, which combines jumping and a 10-kilometer cross-country race, in Sochi in 2014 and in Pyeongchang in 2018. But he finished only seventh this time, the highest place among the Japanese athletes in the event.

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