US EditionJapanese Star Sakamoto 'Frustrated' at Missing Olympic Skating Gold
Three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto finished with 224.90 points, narrowly missing gold by 1.89 points to Alysa Liu after errors in her final Olympic skate.
- On Feb 19 in Milan, Kaori Sakamoto finished her final Olympic performance and took silver, narrowly behind Alysa Liu, the gold medallist.
- Missing her planned triple combination in the free skate to `Non, je ne regrette rien` cost Sakamoto points, which she said were "exactly the margin that cost me the gold."
- Seventeen-Year-Old Ami Nakai won bronze and became one of Japan's youngest women's singles medallists, while 20-year-old Japanese teammate Mone Chiba finished fourth, 1.28 points behind Nakai.
- Sakamoto said she will retire at season's end, leaving competitive skating with four Olympic medals, three of them silver.
- Alysa Liu's performance cemented an ongoing rivalry with Sakamoto, as Liu surged to gold with Donna Summer's disco MacArthur Park and had also beaten Sakamoto at last year's world championships.
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The Team USA figure skating star shielded Japan's Kaori Sakamoto from a cameraman after the latter made a mistake that ultimately cost her what would have been her first gold medal, which instead went to American Alysa Liu.
Kaori Sakamoto (25), a native of Kobe, won the silver medal in the women's figure skating event at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on the 20th (Japan time). This marks her second consecutive medal, following her bronze medal at the previous Beijing Olympics. This was her final...
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