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The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Finding the silver lining

(Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Akito Watabe reacts after winning the silver medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, coming up just shy of victory in the Nordic combined normal hill individual event on Wednesday.

Watabe was third after leaping 105.5 meters in the ski jumping portion, and made up some of the time in the 10-kilometer cross-country phase, but he was unable to take the lead. Watabe finished the cross-country portion in 24 minutes 56.2 seconds. (The Japan News)

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