The Pyeongchang Olympics have had a bit of everything since Yuna Kim ignited the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony on Feb. 9. Political theater, incredible athletic achievements, the wrath of Mother Nature, and more Russians caught doping. The first week was significantly overshadowed by ...
Ten interesting notes from Pyeongchang's first 10 days
As the Pyeongchang Games moved into the second week, here are some observations on the first 10 days: 1 There has been a disjointed feel here from the beginning. In Sochi, the Olympic Park was set up in a fashion that allowed athletes, media and ...
A day after claiming his second straight Winter Olympic halfpipe silver medal, teenage snowboarder Ayumu Hirano said Thursday he is considering a bid to compete in skateboarding at the 2020 Tokyo Games. Speaking at a news conference at the Japanese team base in South Korea, ...
Snowboarder Ayumu Hirano takes silver in men's halfpipe behind Shaun White
Ayumu Hirano wins his second straight Olympic silver medal in the men’s snowboarding halfpipe at the Pyeongchang Games after the U.S.’s Shaun White denies him gold in his final run.
Ayumu Hirano and Shaun White easily qualify for men's halfpipe final
U.S. snowboard great Shaun White began his bid for a third Olympic gold in convincing style, easily separating himself at the top of qualifying for the men's halfpipe at the Pyeongchang Winter Games on Tuesday. Among the Japanese, Ayumu Hirano, who is looking to go ...
Yuto Totsuka finished third in men's halfpipe Saturday at a snowboard World Cup event in the United States. The 16-year-old Totsuka scored 94.50 points in the event won by American superstar Shaun White, who nailed a perfect 100 to secure his place at the Pyeongchang ...
Taku Hiraoka failed in his bid to retain the title and finished third at the snowboard U.S. Open on Saturday as two-time Olympic champion Shaun White triumphed. Hiraoka, who left his best display to his third and final run to score 88.25 points, could not ...
A pair of teenage Japanese rivals produced results worth seeing Tuesday in the halfpipe event and carved their names in history at the Sochi Winter Olympics. The duo repeatedly executed soaring three-revolution spins and came away with Japan's first medals in Sochi. Ayumu Hirano, 15, led ...
Winter Olympians show bravery by competing
When Shaun White pulled out of his first event at the Sochi Olympics, saying the slopestyle course was too risky for him, the verdict from spiteful voices on Twitter who have nothing good to say in 140 characters or less was instant and cruel. Chicken, ...
And to think, Shaun White chose not to ride down this course. Snowboarders kicked off competition at the Olympics on Thursday by making the slopestyle layout that White deemed "intimidating" feel anything but that. Sunny skies. No wind. Decent snow. All in all, slopestyle's debut on ...
Shaun White is used to winning everything. On Sunday, he was ecstatic with third place. Strange as it sounds, the world's best snowboarder insisted that was the case after he finished in the bronze-medal position at the U.S. Grand Prix slopestyle contest, a key Olympic ...
Shaun White found himself on the "Road to Couchi" on Sunday — not exactly where he wanted to be with a key Olympic qualifying event going on outside. The world's most decorated snowboarder pulled out of the slopestyle final at the Dew Tour so he ...
