Japanese Get The Jump On Rivals

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American jump-rope teams will have to bounce back to the drawing board after losing to their Japanese rivals in an international double dutch competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, a neighborhood that first put the sport on the map.

For the sixth year in row, a Japanese team was awarded “Best of Show” in the 16th annual Double Dutch Holiday Classic. A team called Masterpiece took home first place, and two other Japanese teams ranked second and third, pushing the leading American team, the Bouncing Bulldogs, to fourth place. A member of the second-place team GM7, Masayuki Eaito,24, said he had been jumping for only two and a half years, but that he had always loved gymnastics.

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