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Ski jumping: Okabe, 43, returns to Japan team

Japan have called up 43-year-old Takanobu Okabe for the Four Hills ski jumping tournament which gets underway at Oberstdorf in Germany on Saturday.

Paris: Japan have called up 43-year-old Takanobu Okabe for the Four Hills ski jumping tournament which gets underway at Oberstdorf in Germany on Saturday.
Okabe replaces Reruhi Shimizu and was named to the team together with Daiki Ito, Taku Takeuchi, Noriaki Kasai and Yuta Watase, according to www.fis-ski.com. It will be Okabe`s first World Cup event outside of Japan since March 2010.