While the women's 500-meter speed skating race brought unexpected joy to Japan's Beijing Olympic Games captain Miho Takagi on Sunday, it was a bitter disappointment for teammate and defending champion Nao Kodaira.Crossing the line just 0.08 second behind gold medalist Erin Jackson of the United States, Takagi won her second silver of the games in an event not considered one of her strongest among the five she is racing in Beijing.Kodaira, meanwhile, finished far off the pace in 17th place after losing her footing near the starting line at the National Speed Skating Oval.The anticlimactic en…READ FULL ARTICLE
