Speed skating: Nao Kodaira leads women's standings at world sprint c'ships

Japan's Nao Kodaira won the first 500 meters race and finished fourth in the 1,000 meters to position herself at the top of the women's standings at the ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships on Saturday.Kodaira clocked 37.27 seconds for gold in the 500 ahead of Austria's Vanessa Herzog (37.31) and Russia's Angelina Golikova (37.49) at the Thialf Ice Arena, and despite finishing outside of the top three in the 1,000, earned the top spot with 74.775 points.The 32-year-old Kodaira won the overall points title in 2017 but dropped out of the competition before the last event last year due…READ FULL ARTICLE