Olympic women's javelin champion Haruka Kitaguchi hopes that the gold medal she won in Paris will make fellow Japanese athletes think they can compete with the world's best in any event.The 26-year-old became the first Japanese woman to claim Olympic gold in athletics in an event other than the marathon. Naoko Takahashi and Mizuki Noguchi were the marathon winners at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Games, respectively.Koji Murofushi won the men's hammer gold at the 2004 Olympics."Many of today's young athletes weren't born in 2004, so I'm glad they saw me win a gold medal in athletics," Kit…READ FULL ARTICLE
