15-year-old Takagi clinches Vancouver berth

NAGANO, Japan - Fifteen-year-old Miho Takagi skates to victory in the women's 1,500 meters in the final qualifying meet for the Winter Olympics at Nagano's M-Wave ice arena on Dec. 30, 2009. She clinched a berth at next February's Vancouver Games as she cleared the Japan Skating Federation's official Olympic qualifying standard when she won the race in a time of 1 minute, 59.47 seconds.

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