Japan's women grapplers take icy plunge
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Japan's top women wrestlers celebrated the start of the 2008 Olympic year by plunging into the icy depths of Tokyo Bay in an extreme training exercise.
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The women of &quot;X-Men: The Last Stand&quot; can kick your butt.
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ST. PAUL - Not since proper ladies began skating for titles in 1914 has there been a night like this. Three of the top four finishers here, including champion Mirai Nagasu, aren't old enough to go to the world championships in Sweden. And the woman who ruled the planet just two years ago had the worst performance by a reigning ...
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Ai Shibata wore down French teen-ager  Laure Manaudou to win the women's 800 meters freestyle gold  medal at the Athens Olympics Friday and provide Japan with  their first female swimming champion in 12 years.
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ATHENS -- Hardened by grueling hill work in the Swiss mountains and undeterred by the punishing Athens heat, Mizuki Noguchi seized a second straight gold medal for Japan in the women's Olympic marathon yesterday.
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Britain's women continue to outshine the men in Osaka.
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Jeanne Brady squeegees the sweat off her forehead with her red-wrapped hands. She skips inside the ring, jabbing with a left. Thap , a right, thap. Then thap-thap-thap , wildly swinging at her trainer's mitts.
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Japan&#39;s women wrestlers added four medals, including two golds, to lead the country to a record Olympic performance and be within one gold medal of its biggest haul of championships.
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Five years ago Japanese women's rights advocates won their battle to legalize the birth control pill. Now they are waging an even tougher fight - getting women to use it...
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Cynthia Phaneuf of Canada won the women&#39;s short program at Skate Canada with 57.76 points on Friday. Fumie Suguri of Japan shook off a fall on a triple flip to place second with 53.
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Japan has resumed rescue efforts following the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nine years. Saturday&#39;s quake and its aftershocks left 24 people dead and over 2,000 injured.
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Japan&#39;s Olympic hammer-throw champion Koji Murofushi, one of Asia&#39;s few medal hopefuls, barely qualified for the final at the world championships here Saturday.
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Five years ago Japanese women's rights advocates won their battle to legalize the birth control pill. Now they are waging an even tougher fight &#151; getting women to use it.
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Japan revived memories of their glorious  gymnastics past when they upstaged favorites China and the  United States to snatch the Olympic men's team gold for the  first time in 28 years Monday.
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Four days after a deadly earthquake rocked parts of Japan, a woman and her two children have been pulled from the rubble alive. The 39-year-old woman and her two young children had been trapped in a car buried by a landslide.
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England have to settle for a 2-2 draw in their Women's World Cup opener as Japan equalise with the last kick of the game.
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There are so many ups and downs in figure skating, and Miki Ando knows about all of them.