Olympics: Japan wins 1st mixed team ski jumping medal at Milan Cortina

Japan won its first-ever Olympic ski jumping mixed team medal on Tuesday when it finished third at the Milan Cortina Games in Italy.The team of Nozomi Maruyama, Sara Takanashi, Ryoyu Kobayashi and Ren Nikaido scored 1034.0 points on the normal hill at Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium to finish just 4.3 behind the silver medalist Norway.Slovenia defended the Olympic gold, scoring 1069.2 thanks to the dominant brother-sister combination of Domen and Nika Prevc.Japan fell short of a medal on the event's debut at the 2022 Games in Beijing, when Takanashi had her score from one jump removed due to a…READ FULL ARTICLE