Japanese snowboarder Tomoka Takeuchi, who has competed in the past six Winter Olympics, said Thursday she will retire at the end of the 2025-26 Olympic season.The parallel giant slalom silver medalist at the 2014 Sochi Olympics has already met the qualifying standards set by the Ski Association of Japan for next February's Milan-Cortina Olympics."In one last season, I want to go all out to win," the 41-year-old said at a press conference in Tokyo.The Hokkaido native made her Olympic debut in 2002 and moved her training base to Switzerland five years later.Takeuchi did not compete for about …READ FULL ARTICLE
