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The Japanese aren't good; Nakano was brilliant, albeit in an age when many countries concentrated their track racing effort on the then separate amateur sport. Considering the amount of track sprinting that gets done in the NJS Keirin circuit, the surprise is that no Japanese rider has won a sprint medal in the world championships since 1989, and they have been all but invisible on the road until Fumy Beppu arrived a few years ago.