Olympics: Japan finishes 5th in men's team ski jumping in Beijing

Japan finished fifth in the men's team ski jumping event at the Beijing Olympics on Monday, dashing Ryoyu Kobayashi's hopes of a third medal at the 2022 Games.The Japan team of Kobayashi, his older brother Junshiro, Naoki Nakamura and Yukiya Sato scored 882.8 points to finish almost 60 points behind the gold medal-winning team from Austria.Slovenia took silver and Germany bronze.Ryoyu delivered two strong jumps of 134.0 and 132.5 meters, but the rest of the team lagged. Nakamura and Junshiro did not even reach the calculation point on their second jumps meaning they missed additional distan…READ FULL ARTICLE