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Japan beats U.S. to win softball gold Today 06:10 am JST Today | 11:27 am JST YOKOHAMA They marched single file onto the podium near shortstop with the blank expressions of the condemned. When silver medals were handed out, they dangled them around each other’s necks like weights. Eyes were red and damp. Perfunctory waves for the cameras were managed. Hands fidgeted with bouquets of sunflowers. Stunned, yes. Heartbroken, yes. Most precisely: devastated. “It stings,” Cat Osterman would say more than two hours later. “I’ve never been on a team that had so much fight.” Just not enough. Japan won its second straight Olympic softball gold medal, beating the United States 2-0 Tuesday night behind 39-year-old Yukiko Ueno in an emotional repeat of the 2008 victory in Beijing.

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