Japan's Kaori Sakamoto took the lead in the women's competition at the figure skating world championships in Montpellier, southern France, with a career-best short program Wednesday.Olympic bronze medalist Sakamoto skated a powerful routine, landing all her jumps, a double axel, triple lutz and a triple flip-triple toe-loop combination. Her 80.32 points surpassed the 79.84 she recorded last month at the Beijing Games."I'm nothing but surprised," Sakamoto said. "Especially since my recent practices have been so tough.""It's great to wrap up the season strong. I have this streak of clean free…READ FULL ARTICLE
