Olympics: Sara Takanashi 4th in women's normal hill ski jump

Japanese ski jumper Sara Takanashi missed out on winning Japan's first medal of the Beijing Olympics, finishing fourth in a disappointing women's normal hill performance on Saturday at Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre.Takanashi, with one bronze from the Pyeongchang Games four years earlier after twice being a gold-medal favorite, was fifth after a 108.7-point first jump, and moved up a place in the final round to finish with 224.1 points.Slovene Ursa Bogataj, third in this year's World Cup standings, took gold with 239.0 points. Germany's Katharina Althaus, the first-round leader, wa…READ FULL ARTICLE