The Latest Breaking News from Miho Takagi

"It was good that I could keep going until the end," speed skater Miho Takagi told reporters on Friday at a press conference in Beijing after earning her fourth medal at the Winter Olympics. "I couldn't have done this alone."

BEIJING -- After finally reaching the top of the medal podium in her seventh race of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Miho Takagi exchanged an emotional hug with her Dutch coach Johan de Wit, who had always believed in her.

Miho Takagi scooped her second silver medal of the Beijing Games in the women's 500-meter speed skating event on Sunday. The 27-year-old is no newcomer to the Olympics, however, having competed in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics while a third-year junior high schooler.

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BEIJING -- Miho Takagi took the silver medal in the women's 1,500-meter speed skating event in 1 minute 53.72 seconds on the fourth day of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Monday.

The first Monday of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games

The Yomiuri Shimbun Miho Takagi, front, finished sixth in the women's 3000-meter speed skating on Saturday.

BEIJING -- Japan Olympic team captain Miho Takagi finished sixth on Saturday in her first event of the Beijing Games, the women's 3000 meters.

BEIJING -- Speed skating and other events started in full swing on Saturday, a day after the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics. With Team Japan comprising 124 athletes, it was the largest delegation the country has sent to a Winter Games overseas, and a large medal haul is…