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    OLYMPICS: ASADA DEPARTS FOR ARMENIA TRAINING BASE

    Japan Economic Newswire
    February 10, 2014 Monday 10:24 AM GMT

    SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 10

    SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 10 - Mao Asada left Sochi on Monday to prepare for
    the women's figure skating competition at the Japan team's training
    base in the Armenian capital of Yerevan.

    "My body is weak, so I want to get back into competitive shape,"
    she said a day after Japan finished fifth in the Olympics' first team
    figure skating competition.

    Asada is expected to train for a week at the base Japan has prepared
    in Yerevan before returning to Sochi. The Vancouver Games' silver
    medalist was third in the women's short program during the team
    competition after she fell on her opening triple axel.

    "It was a mental issue," she said. "I want to focus on my performance."

    In the singles competition, she will face competition from not only
    her longtime rival Kim Yu Na of South Korea, but also from Russian
    Julia Lipnitskaia. In the team competition, the dynamic 15-year-old
    Lipnitskaia was first in both the women's short program and the
    free skate.

    "My target," Asada said, "is to execute a satisfactory performance
    in my final Olympic Games."

    http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/02/271064.html

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