World javelin champion Haruka Kitaguchi is keen to reap the rewards of her early qualification to the Paris Olympics, training at her own pace at her Czech Republic training base.The 25-year-old twice rewrote national records in 2023. In August in Budapest, she qualified for Paris and became Japan's first woman world athletics championships gold medalist in an event other than the marathon."It'd be great if I can win the gold medal in Paris, but it won't be easy," Kitaguchi told Kyodo News recently."(Having already booked the Paris spot) I can prepare without being fixated about qualificati…READ FULL ARTICLE