TOKYO - Japanese figure skating pair Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, the gold medalists at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, announced their retirement from competition Friday.
Affectionately dubbed "Riku-Ryu," the pair moved up from fifth place in the short program to the top with a world record score in the free skate to earn Japan's first pairs Winter Games medal of any color in February.
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