Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara became the first all-Japanese team to win a pairs medal at the figure skating world championships on Thursday when they earned a silver medal in Montpellier, southern France.With the top five pairs from last month's Winter Olympics missing from the event, Americans Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier took advantage to win the United States' first pairs gold at worlds in 43 years, scoring 221.09 points.Miura and Kihara scored 199.55 points to secure three pairs quota spots for Japan in next year's worlds in Saitama, and Canada's Vanessa James and Eric Radford took…READ FULL ARTICLE
