Figure skating: Miyahara recovers to place 3rd in women's short program at worlds

Japan's Satoko Miyahara overcame an early slip-up to sit third in the women's competition after the short program at the figure skating world championships on Wednesday.Miyahara, fourth at last month's Pyeongchang Olympics, scored 74.36 points to trail Italy's Carolina Kostner, who led with a career-best 80.27 and Russia's Alina Zagitova, who had 79.51.Miyahara opened with a triple flip-triple toeloop combination, but wobbled slightly on the transition and under rotated the toeloop in an otherwise solid performance."I was trying to force it and tightened up," she said. "I knew I under rotat…READ FULL ARTICLE