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Japanese women’s curling team becomes heroes thanks to talent and charm, wins 100 years of rice
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Casey Baseel
Mar 1, 2018 - Tweet
- Japan
- (2018 Olympics • crazy • curling • Olympics • PyeongChang Olympics • rice • sports • winter olympics)
Older female fans’ steamy comments about gold medal skater Yuzuru Hanyu spark debate online
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Casey Baseel
Feb 23, 2018
- Japan
- (2018 Olympics • Olympics • PyeongChang Olympics • skating • sports • Yuzuru Hanyu)
Japan’s silver medalist figure skater has no time for love because he’s busy playing video games
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Casey Baseel
Feb 22, 2018
With an Olympic medal on his resume, Shoma Uno says he’d like to enter a video game tournament.
- Japan
- (2018 Olympics • COK • figure skating • Olympics • PyeongChang Olympics • romance • Shoma Uno • sports • video games)
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Casey Baseel
Feb 19, 2018
Call for more balanced language following gold and silver medals for Japanese figure skaters runs into strong backlash.
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