Paralympics: Momoka Muraoka's 5-medal Beijing dream dashed at final hurdle

Alpine sit-skier Momoka Muraoka missed out on winning her fifth medal of the Beijing Paralympics on Saturday when she finished fifth in the women's slalom.The 25-year-old Japanese was attempting to win five medals at consecutive Paralympic Games, but was unable to add to her haul of three gold and one silver won at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre in Beijing's mountainous north.Muraoka could not replicate her dominant showings from the speed events in the tight and technical turns of the slalom, which she acknowledged before the event is her least preferred discipline.But she appea…READ FULL ARTICLE