Today is the coldest day of this winter. It snowed in Tokyo. Speaking of snow, it is a season of winter sports. Here is a good news today.
Japan Nordic Combined Team got kin medaru (金メダル), the gold medal at FIS Nordic World Championship in Liberec, Czech Republic. It has been 14 years since a Japanese team last got a Gold medal in this field in 1995. From 1992 to 1995 the Japan Nordic Combined Teams got gold medals in World Championships and Olympics.
Nordic Combined is a combination of cross-country skiing and ski jumping. Cross-country skiing needs stamina and ski jumping needs agility. The winner is called "the King of Ski" in Europe.
There are 4 skiers in a team. First they jump twice then they relay 5km each (20km). The result of the jump records are converted to the time difference of the start of the relay. Japanese teams were very good at ski jumping and they won many times. However the rules have been changed several times, and it became difficult for Japanese team to get gold medals.
However in this World Championships they are champions. Japanese team were 5th of 452.4 points when they finished jumping. They started after 24 seconds later than the first team but were successful in a come-from-behind victory. The members are Norihito Kobayashi(小林範仁) 26 years old, Yusuke Minato (湊祐介) 23 years old, Taihei Kato (加藤大平) 24 years old, and Akito Watabe (渡部暁斗) 20 years old.
Congratulations!
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