Japan qualified a women's curling team to an eighth straight Winter Olympics on Wednesday after overcoming Norway 6-5 in a qualifier.Japan, represented by Hokkaido-based team Fortius who won the domestic qualifier in September, prevailed in a nail-biting encounter by scoring in the final end to become the second Japanese team to reach the Milan-Cortina Games, joining the women's ice hockey squad.Japan finished second in the eight-team round-robin stage of the qualification event, racking up six wins and one loss. The loss came against Norway, 10-9 in the teams' final preliminary game."We wo…READ FULL ARTICLE
