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Japan leads in a tight race for the women's figure skating podium
The race for the podium in the women’s event is a tight one, with a crowded field including U.S. and Japanese skaters, as well as dark horse Adeliia Petrosian from Russia, who is competing as a neutral athlete after Russia was barred from competing as a country following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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