Despite a disappointing exit from her sixth Winter Olympics, Japan's snowboarding matriarch Tomoka Takeuchi said she will leave the games with only great memories.The 38-year-old Takeuchi, who was the oldest competitor in her event at the Beijing Winter Games, fell during the first round of the finals of the parallel giant slalom event on Tuesday. She was handed a DNF for impeding her opponent Ramona Theresia Hofmeister of Germany."I do feel frustrated about ending the Olympics like this, but over 99 percent of the times were fantastically exciting and so I would like to make that 99 percen…READ FULL ARTICLE
