Japan's Miho Takagi won the women's 1,000 meters at a speed skating World Cup event on Saturday as the Beijing Olympics gold medalist made her appearance in the distance a certainty at the Milan-Cortina Games.A day after securing her first individual World Cup win of the season in the 1,500, Takagi added another gold this time in the 1,000, clocking 1 minute, 14.39 seconds in Hamar, Norway."It was a more uplifting race than yesterday," said Takagi after extending her Japan-leading individual World Cup wins to 38."I sense I'm gradually managing to internalize things that I've been working on…READ FULL ARTICLE
