{"id":251490,"date":"2026-01-22T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/251490\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:41:07","slug":"games-bound-nakai-ami-off-to-flying-start-in-womens-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/251490\/","title":{"rendered":"Games-bound Nakai Ami off to flying start in women&#8217;s SP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nakai Ami emerged with the women\u2019s short program lead over her fellow Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\/sports\/figure-skating\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">figure skaters<\/a>\u00a0as the curtains went up on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sport-events\/2026-isu-figure-skating-four-continents-championships-beijing\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ISU Four Continents Championships 2026<\/a>\u00a0in Beijing on Thursday (22 January).<\/p>\n<p>Despite being docked points for what appeared to be a clean landing on her trademark triple\u00a0Axel, the 17-year-old Nakai\u2019s 73.83 put her ahead of her compatriots Aoki Yuna (71.41) and Chiba Mone (68.07), who fell on a triple lutz.<\/p>\n<p>Nakai and Chiba have been named to Japan\u2019s squad for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympic\u00a0Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026<\/a>. The Four Continents is their final tune-up before the Games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/gabrielle-daleman\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabrielle Daleman<\/a> of Canada was fourth on 67.69 followed by USA\u2019s Sarah Everhardt (67.51) and the Republic of Korea\u2019s Olympic-bound <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/lee-haeun\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee\u00a0Haein<\/a> (67.06), who filled out the last group for the free skating on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes&#8217; participation at the Milano Cortina Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nakai Ami emerged with the women\u2019s short program lead over her fellow Japanese figure skaters\u00a0as the curtains went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-251490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}