Olympics: Early leader Watabe falls to 5th in Nordic combined large hill

Akito Watabe had his heart broken for the second time at the Pyeongchang Olympics, the Japanese on Tuesday missing gold again, this time in the Nordic combined large hill 10-kilometer event.Watabe opened the cross-country leg with a 31-second lead over gold medalist Johannes Rydzek of Germany after leading the way with a 138.9-point leap, but could not maintain the gap and fell to fifth when he was reeled in by a three-man German chase pack.Rydzek crossed the line in 23 minutes, 52.5 seconds, outsprinting his countrymen Fabian Riessle and normal hill gold medalist Eric Frenzel, who won silv…READ FULL ARTICLE