Olympics: Sara Takanashi vows to show golden progress in Beijing

Japan's Sara Takanashi is determined to deliver her best performance at the Beijing Games and win her first Olympic ski jumping gold medal in a competition thrown wide open in the absence of women's World Cup leader Marita Kramer.Without Kramer, who tested positive for COVID-19 and was ruled out from the games, Takanashi said Saturday's competition has become something "anybody can win.""I hope to show how much I've progressed in the past four years and win the gold medal," said Takanashi, who failed to live up to expectations as a gold-medal favorite at her first two Olympic Games.As a 17-…READ FULL ARTICLE