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Japans hails teamwork as key to speed skating pursuit success

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Tokyo (dpa) - Japan was praising one of its society‘s key ingredients - teamwork - as the reason for Olympic gold in the women‘s speed skating team pursuit on Wednesday. The Japanese team of Ayano Sato and sisters Miho and Nana Takagi caused a surprise by beating speed-skating powerhouse the Netherlands at the Gangneung Oval in South Korea.They even set an Olympic record of 2 minutes 53.89 seconds to prevail. Teamwork was very much the byword for those watching at home. "Impressed by the good teamwork and the never-give-up, tenacious skating," Saori Yoshida, a three-time Olympic gold medallist in women‘s wrestling, wrote on Twitter.It‘s a "victory for teamwork," former Tokyo governor Yoichi Masuzoe also wrote on Twitter. "It‘s the same as Japan‘s silver in the men‘s 4X100 metre relay at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics."At the 2016 Games, Japanese track athletes Ryota Yamagata, Shota Iizuka, Yoshihide Kiryu and Aska Cambridge stunned the athletics world by finishing the relay second.After winning the speed skating on Wednesday, Miho Takagi told reporters, "I was able to skate this way because of these teammates."Takagi, who failed to make the Japanese team for the 2014 Sochi Games, took silver in the women‘s 1,500 metres at Pyeongchang and bronze in the 1,000m."As an individual, I lacked the strength to win the 1,500, but as a team, we could do it," she said.The gold in team pursuit made Takagi the first Japanese woman to achieve a full set of medals in a single Winter Olympics.

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