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Gurimu Narita captures men's snowboarding gold medal at Pyeongchang Paralympics
Gurimu Narita won gold Friday in men's snowboarding banked slalom at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics. The Osaka native claimed his second medal at these games after he finished with the best time in the SB-LL2 classification of 48.68 seconds on his last of three runs ...
Atsushi Yamamoto steps off the field and onto the slopes
He is arguably Japan's best-known disabled athlete, but some may be surprised to see Atsushi Yamamoto at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics. Famous for Summer Paralympics track and field events, Yamamoto claimed silver in the long jump at the 2008 and 2016 Games and a bronze ...
Putting Japan's Olympic success into words
Team Japan amassed 13 medals in Pyeongchang, its best ever Winter Games medal haul.
Who to watch on Tuesday, Day 5 of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics
10 a.m. Snowboard, women’s halfpipe final: Haruna Matsumoto and Sena Tomita have advanced to the final. Matsumoto placed third in Monday's heat with 84.25 points while Tomita was seventh with 66.75 points. 1 p.m. Snowboard, men’s halfpipe preliminary round: Ayumu Hirano — the X Games ...
Twenty years on from the Olympics, Nagano is still the home of Japan's winter sports
Nagano Prefecture's bountiful snow continues to be the stuff of ski and snowboarding legend, with classic Olympic resorts such as Hakuba Happo-one, Nozawa Onsen and Shiga Kogen.
Ayumu Hirano nailed a near-perfect 99-point third run Sunday to win the men's Winter X Games snowboard superpipe event in Aspen, Colorado. In his first two runs, Hirano, who will represent Japan at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics next month, posted scores of 93 and 96.66, ...
Snow and spirituality in Tottori: Winter on a sacred peak
Mount Daisen in Tottori Prefecture is the largest mountain in the Chugoku region of western Honshu. An isolated peak with views over the Sea of Japan, the mountain stands at 1,729 meters and gets plenty of snow in the winter, making it one of ...
Snowboarders Reira Iwabuchi and Hiroaki Kunitake meet Olympic qualification criteria
Reira Iwabuchi and Hiroaki Kunitake are among four snowboarders who met the qualification criteria for February's Pyeongchang Olympics on Friday, according to requirements set by the Ski Association of Japan. On the same day bad weather forced the cancellation of a World Cup meet in ...
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 ...
Snowboarders Hiroaki Kunitake and Reira Iwabuchi claim runner-up finishes
Teenage snowboarders Hiroaki Kunitake and Reira Iwabuchi finished second Friday in their respective slopestyle World Cup events in the United States. The 15-year-old Kunitake scored 83.64 points in his first podium finish since making his world tour debut in September, leaving him between winner Redmond ...
Snowboarders Ayumu Hirano and Tomoka Takeuchi named to Japan Olympic team for Pyeongchang Games
The Ski Association of Japan announced Friday that Sochi snowboarding silver medalists Ayumu Hirano and Tomoka Takeuchi, as well as 10 other athletes, will compete in February's Pyeongchang Olympics. Hirano, who has won two World Cup events this season, will compete in the men's halfpipe. "I'll ...
Japanese men dominate podium in snowboard World Cup halfpipe
Japan swept the podium in the men's halfpipe at a snowboard World Cup event on Thursday, with Ayumu Hirano, Raibu Katayama and Yuto Totsuka finishing first, second and third. The trio respectively registered point totals of 97.75, 90.75 and 90.50, while Naito Ando (88.75) finished ...
