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Croatia v France - 2025 Davis Cup Qualifiers Second Round: Day 2

Croatia v France - 2025 Davis Cup Qualifiers Second Round: Day 2

OSIJEK, CROATIA - SEPTEMBER 13: France advances to Davis Cup final in Bologna after wining the 2025 Davis Cup Qualifier second round match between Croatia and France at Dvorana Gradski Vrt on September 13, 2025 in Osijek, Croatia. Photo by David Jerkovic/PIXSELL/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SPORT INVERNALI - Pattinaggio sul Ghiaccio - ISU World Tour Short Track

SPORT INVERNALI - Pattinaggio sul Ghiaccio - ISU World Tour Short Track

Team Italy celebrates during the medal ceremony after wining the women's 500m final on Day 2 of the ISU Short Track World Tour #6 Milan at Forum Assago on February 14, 2025 in Milan, Italy

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SPORT INVERNALI - Pattinaggio sul Ghiaccio - ISU World Tour Short Track

SPORT INVERNALI - Pattinaggio sul Ghiaccio - ISU World Tour Short Track

SIGHEL Pietro of Italy celebrates during the medal ceremony after wining the women's 500m final on Day 2 of the ISU Short Track World Tour #6 Milan at Forum Assago on February 14, 2025 in Milan, Italy

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SPORT INVERNALI - Pattinaggio sul Ghiaccio - ISU World Tour Short Track

SPORT INVERNALI - Pattinaggio sul Ghiaccio - ISU World Tour Short Track

SIGHEL Pietro of Italy celebrates during the medal ceremony after wining the women's 500m final on Day 2 of the ISU Short Track World Tour #6 Milan at Forum Assago on February 14, 2025 in Milan, Italy

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Wimbledon FIrst Round

Wimbledon FIrst Round

Osaka Naomi celebrates after wining the women's singles first round match between Osaka Naomi of Japan and Diane Parry of France at Wimbledon tennis Championship in London, UK, on July 1, 2024. Photo by Han Yan/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(SP)BRITAIN-LONDON-TENNIS-WIMBLEDON

(SP)BRITAIN-LONDON-TENNIS-WIMBLEDON

(240702) -- LONDON, July 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Osaka Naomi celebrates after wining the women's singles first round match between Osaka Naomi of Japan and Diane Parry of France at Wimbledon tennis Championship in London, Britain, on July 1, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Han Yan)

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Sword match - FencingEuro Basel 2024

Sword match - FencingEuro Basel 2024

Basel Switzerland, 06/23/2024: PASZTOR Flora (Hungary) celebrates wining point for bronze medal during Fencing Euro Basel 2024. Fencing Euro Basel 2024 took place at the St. Jakobshalle, in Basel. Credit: Patrick Dancel/LiveMedia. during FencingEuro Basel 2024, Sword match in Basel, Switzerland, June 23 2024

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Competition held to choose best sake brands

Competition held to choose best sake brands

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from Japanese sake brewers Miyaizumi Meijo Co. of Fukushima Prefecture (R) and Yamawa Shuzoten Co. of Miyagi Prefecture, both northeastern Japan, hold wining plaques during an award ceremony at the 2014 Sake Competition held in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2014, to choose the tastiest rice wine in the "junmai-shu" (pure sake without alcohol addition) and "junmai daiginjo-shu" (with rice polished to less than 50% of its original size) categories, respectively.

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People relax at terrace created along Osaka river

People relax at terrace created along Osaka river

OSAKA, Japan - People enjoy wining and dining at an open terrace created in Nakanoshima Park facing the Tosabori River in Osaka, western Japan, on Aug. 11, 2014, as part of a project to turn the city into a "metropolis of water."

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World athletics championships

World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Mo Farah of Britain holds the Union Jack after wining gold in the men's 10,000 meters at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 10, 2013.

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Gebrselassie wins Fukuoka marathon

Gebrselassie wins Fukuoka marathon

FUKUOKA, Japan - Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie poses in front of an electric clock at Heiwadai athletics stadium in Fukuoka on Dec. 3 after wining the Fukuoka International Marathon in 2 hours, 06 minutes, 52 seconds.

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Nakazawa wins women's under-78 kg judo event at Asian Games

Nakazawa wins women's under-78 kg judo event at Asian Games

DOHA, Qatar - Sae Nakazawa of Japan is all smiles after wining the gold medal in the women's under-78kg judo competition at the Asian Games in Doha on Dec. 2.

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(2)Dominican Republic's Sanchez wins men's 400m hurdles

(2)Dominican Republic's Sanchez wins men's 400m hurdles

ATHENS, Greece - Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic waves the national flag after wining the gold medal in the men's 400-meter hurdles in the Athens Olympics at Olympic Stadium on Aug. 26, giving his country its first Olympic gold.

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(2)Arakawa wins gold at world championships

(2)Arakawa wins gold at world championships

DORTMUND, Germany - Japan's Shizuka Arakawa holds her country's flag after wining gold March 27 at the World Figure Skating Championships in Dortmund, Germany. Arakawa, 22, is the third Japanese skater to claim the women's crown at a world championship after Midori Ito in 1984 and Yuka Sato in 1994.

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(4)Yankees beat Red Sox to advance to World Series

(4)Yankees beat Red Sox to advance to World Series

NEW YORK, United States - Hideki Matsui (55) celebrates with New York Yankees teammates after wining the American League Championship by beating the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium Oct. 16.

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Izawa hangs on to win Japan Golf Tour C'ship

Izawa hangs on to win Japan Golf Tour C'ship

TOMOBE, Japan - Toshimitsu Izawa holds up a trophy after wining the Japan Golf Tour Championship at Shishido Hills Country Club in the town of Tomobe, Ibaraki Prefecture, on July 6. Izawa closed out with a four-day total of 14-under 270 for his second Tour Championship title.

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S. Korea's Ko comes from behind to win Japan Women's Open

S. Korea's Ko comes from behind to win Japan Women's Open

HAKONE, Japan - South Korean veteran Ko Woo Soon (L) is congratulated by Lorena Ochoa of Mexico at Hakone Country Club on Oct. 6 after wining the Japan Women's Open with a tournament record for her major title on the Japanese tour.

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Musashimaru falls to Kaio, but wins summer sumo tourney

Musashimaru falls to Kaio, but wins summer sumo tourney

TOKYO, Japan - The Samoa-born yokozuna Musashimaru, surrounded by supporters, holds the Emperor's Cup at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on May 26 after wining the 15-day Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with 13 wins and two losses.

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Yang Yang brings 1st gold medal to China in Salt Lake Olympics

Yang Yang brings 1st gold medal to China in Salt Lake Olympics

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Yang Yang (L) and Wang Chunlu hold up a Chinese flag at the Salt Lake Ice Center on Feb. 16 after wining the gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the women's 500 meters short track speed skating.

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Blanc wins women's parallel giant slalom snowboarding

Blanc wins women's parallel giant slalom snowboarding

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Isabelle Blanc of France holds a French flag at Pack City Mountain Resort on Feb. 15 after wining the women's parallel giant slalom snowboarding. Blanc is flanked by Karine Ruby (R), the French silver medalist and the bronze medalist, Lidia Trettel of Italy.

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Prosecutors raid MOF

Prosecutors raid MOF

Prosecutors enter the financial inspection department at the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo on Jan. 26 to investigate allegations that two department officials accepted bribes in the form of wining, dining and golf from several major Japanese banks.

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Prosecutors raid MOF

Prosecutors raid MOF

Prosecutors enter the financial inspection department at the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo on Jan. 26 to investigate allegations that two department officials accepted bribes in the form of wining, dining and golf from several major Japanese banks.

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Gebrselassie wins Fukuoka marathon

Gebrselassie wins Fukuoka marathon

FUKUOKA, Japan - Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie poses in front of an electric clock at Heiwadai athletics stadium in Fukuoka on Dec. 3 after wining the Fukuoka International Marathon in 2 hours, 06 minutes, 52 seconds. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Gov. Masuzoe admits using political funds for private dining

Tokyo Gov. Masuzoe admits using political funds for private dining

Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe drinks water ahead of a press conference at the metropolitan government offices on May 13, 2016. Masuzoe admitted at the press conference to using political funds for private wining and dining. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Gov. Masuzoe admits using political funds for private dining

Tokyo Gov. Masuzoe admits using political funds for private dining

Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe bows in apology during a press conference at the metropolitan government offices on May 13, 2016, after admitting to using political funds for private wining and dining. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Gov. Masuzoe admits using political funds for private dining

Tokyo Gov. Masuzoe admits using political funds for private dining

Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe grimaces ahead of a press conference at the metropolitan government offices on May 13, 2016. Masuzoe admitted at the press conference to using political funds for private wining and dining. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Gov. Masuzoe admits using political funds for private dining

Tokyo Gov. Masuzoe admits using political funds for private dining

Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe admits to using political funds for private wining and dining during a press conference at the metropolitan government offices on May 13, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Young women drink beer at wining/dining event in western Japan

Young women drink beer at wining/dining event in western Japan

Young women drink beer at an exchange event in the city of Kochi, western Japan, at the start of an "Okyaku" (guest) festa on March 7, 2015. Various wining and dining events are held during the period through March 15. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wining/dining fest under way in Kochi, western Japan

Wining/dining fest under way in Kochi, western Japan

Participants in a tour of sake breweries make a toast aboard an "Okyaku" (guest) train in Ino, Kochi Prefecture, on March 7, 2015. Tours and various other exchange events involving wining and dining are held during the March 7-15 Okyaku festa in the western Japan prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ethics scandal involving senior bureaucrats in Japan

Ethics scandal involving senior bureaucrats in Japan

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Jun Sawada answers a question during a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo on March 15, 2021, in which he was summoned as a witness over a wining-and-dining scandal involving senior communications ministry bureaucrats.

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Ethics scandal involving senior bureaucrats in Japan

Ethics scandal involving senior bureaucrats in Japan

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Jun Sawada bows during a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo on March 15, 2021, in which he was summoned as a witness over a wining-and-dining scandal involving senior communications ministry bureaucrats.

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Ethics scandal involving senior bureaucrats in Japan

Ethics scandal involving senior bureaucrats in Japan

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Jun Sawada is pictured in Tokyo on March 15, 2021, before a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in which he was summoned as a witness over a wining-and-dining scandal involving senior communications ministry bureaucrats.

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Panel to look into hospitality scandal in Japan

Panel to look into hospitality scandal in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda (back) speaks on March 17, 2021, at the first meeting in Tokyo of a third-party panel set up to look into a wining and dining scandal that involved senior bureaucrats of the ministry and companies that they supervise.

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Panel to look into hospitality scandal in Japan

Panel to look into hospitality scandal in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks on March 17, 2021, at the first meeting in Tokyo of a third-party panel set up to look into a wining and dining scandal that involved senior bureaucrats of the ministry and companies that they supervise.

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Panel to look into hospitality scandal in Japan

Panel to look into hospitality scandal in Japan

A third-party panel holds its first meeting at the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry in Tokyo on March 17, 2021, to look into a wining and dining scandal that involved senior bureaucrats of the ministry and companies that they supervise.

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Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda meets the press in Tokyo on March 16, 2021, following the resignation of a former vice minister for policy coordination at the ministry over a wining-and-dining scandal involving Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.

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Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda (R) meets the press in Tokyo on March 16, 2021, following the resignation of a former vice minister for policy coordination at the ministry over a wining-and-dining scandal involving Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.

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Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda meets the press in Tokyo on March 16, 2021, following the resignation of a former vice minister for policy coordination at the ministry over a wining-and-dining scandal involving Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.

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Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda (R) meets the press in Tokyo on March 16, 2021, following the resignation of a former vice minister for policy coordination at the ministry over a wining-and-dining scandal involving Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.

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Osaka mayor apologizes for careless coronavirus infections by employees

Osaka mayor apologizes for careless coronavirus infections by employees

Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui bows in apology in front of reporters at the city office in Osaka on April 5, 2021. At least five employees of the city recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus after wining and dining in large groups, despite a request that the number of people in groups going out to eat should be limited to four or fewer.

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Yang Yang brings 1st gold medal to China in Salt Lake Olympics

Yang Yang brings 1st gold medal to China in Salt Lake Olympics

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Yang Yang (L) and Wang Chunlu hold up a Chinese flag at the Salt Lake Ice Center on Feb. 16 after wining the gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the women's 500 meters short track speed skating.

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(2)Dominican Republic's Sanchez wins men's 400m hurdles

(2)Dominican Republic's Sanchez wins men's 400m hurdles

ATHENS, Greece - Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic waves the national flag after wining the gold medal in the men's 400-meter hurdles in the Athens Olympics at Olympic Stadium on Aug. 26, giving his country its first Olympic gold. (Kyodo)

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Nakazawa wins women's under-78 kg judo event at Asian Games

Nakazawa wins women's under-78 kg judo event at Asian Games

DOHA, Qatar - Sae Nakazawa of Japan is all smiles after wining the gold medal in the women's under-78kg judo competition at the Asian Games in Doha on Dec. 2. (Kyodo)

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Competition held to choose best sake brands

Competition held to choose best sake brands

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from Japanese sake brewers Miyaizumi Meijo Co. of Fukushima Prefecture (R) and Yamawa Shuzoten Co. of Miyagi Prefecture, both northeastern Japan, hold wining plaques during an award ceremony at the 2014 Sake Competition held in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2014, to choose the tastiest rice wine in the "junmai-shu" (pure sake without alcohol addition) and "junmai daiginjo-shu" (with rice polished to less than 50% of its original size) categories, respectively. (Kyodo)

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People relax at terrace created along Osaka river

People relax at terrace created along Osaka river

OSAKA, Japan - People enjoy wining and dining at an open terrace created in Nakanoshima Park facing the Tosabori River in Osaka, western Japan, on Aug. 11, 2014, as part of a project to turn the city into a "metropolis of water." (Kyodo)

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(2)Arakawa wins gold at world championships

(2)Arakawa wins gold at world championships

DORTMUND, Germany - Japan's Shizuka Arakawa holds her country's flag after wining gold March 27 at the World Figure Skating Championships in Dortmund, Germany. Arakawa, 22, is the third Japanese skater to claim the women's crown at a world championship after Midori Ito in 1984 and Yuka Sato in 1994. (Kyodo)

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(4)Yankees beat Red Sox to advance to World Series

(4)Yankees beat Red Sox to advance to World Series

NEW YORK, United States - Hideki Matsui (55) celebrates with New York Yankees teammates after wining the American League Championship by beating the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium Oct. 16. (Kyodo)

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Izawa hangs on to win Japan Golf Tour C'ship

Izawa hangs on to win Japan Golf Tour C'ship

TOMOBE, Japan - Toshimitsu Izawa holds up a trophy after wining the Japan Golf Tour Championship at Shishido Hills Country Club in the town of Tomobe, Ibaraki Prefecture, on July 6. Izawa closed out with a four-day total of 14-under 270 for his second Tour Championship title. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea's Ko comes from behind to win Japan Women's Open

S. Korea's Ko comes from behind to win Japan Women's Open

HAKONE, Japan - South Korean veteran Ko Woo Soon (L) is congratulated by Lorena Ochoa of Mexico at Hakone Country Club on Oct. 6 after wining the Japan Women's Open with a tournament record for her major title on the Japanese tour. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors raid MOF

Prosecutors raid MOF

Prosecutors enter the financial inspection department at the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo on Jan. 26 to investigate allegations that two department officials accepted bribes in the form of wining, dining and golf from several major Japanese banks.

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