Snowboarder Ruka Hirano captured his first World Cup victory in Calgary on Saturday in the men's halfpipe competition, the last of five events of the season. The 17-year-old, who won gold at the Winter Youth Olympics in Switzerland last month, scored 94.75 points at Canada ...
Reira Iwabuchi, Kokomo Murase finish 1-2 at Big Air event in Atlanta
Snowboarder Reira Iwabuchi clinched the big air crystal globe for the second straight year after winning the two-day World Cup season finale in the Big Air event on Friday. Iwabuchi, who turned 18 last week, scored 170.50 over her first two runs to ...
Miyabi Onitsuka snared her first gold medal of the snowboard World Cup season, winning the women's big air in Beijing on Saturday. The 21-year-old received a score of 165.00 to finish seven points clear of Austria's Anna Gasser. Canada's Laurie Blouin took bronze with 155.75 ...
Top 10: Where to go skiing and snowboarding in Japan this winter
Winter is approaching fast and with it Japan becomes a bucket list destination on the mind of any skier and snowboarder, with fresh powder snow and Etch A Sketch skiing conditions. While skiing in Europe and North America is primarily associated with long, steep runs ...
Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo suspected of smuggling cannabis from U.S.
Former Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo was arrested Wednesday for allegedly smuggling cannabis from the United States for profit. The narcotics control department of the Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare also searched his home the same day. According to the department, Kokubo, 31, a ...
A Japanese Olympic medalist has admitted causing a collision that injured several people last month in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, investigative sources said Wednesday. He is suspected of fleeing the scene despite the driver of the other vehicle, a 40-year-old woman, sustaining minor injuries. Police plan ...
Snowboarder Yuto Totsuka wins men's halfpipe gold at World Cup finals
Yuto Totsuka overcame challenging weather conditions at Mammoth Mountain in California to win the men's snowboard halfpipe finals at the World Cup season finale on Saturday. Totsuka, a silver medalist from last month's world championships in Utah, had a top run score of 95.75 points ...
Raibu Katayama, Yuto Totsuka place second, third in halfpipe at U.S. Open
Raibu Katayama and Yuto Totsuka finished second and third, respectively, on Sunday in the men's halfpipe competition at the Burton U.S. Open in Vail, Colorado. Katayama, 23, who finished seventh at last year's Pyeongchang Olympics, grabbed silver with 90.49 points on the 22-foot halfpipe at ...
Miyabi Onitsuka places third in women's slopestyle final at U.S. Open
Miyabi Onitsuka placed third in the women's slopestyle final Friday at the U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships at Vail Mountain Resort in Colorado. Zoi Sadowski Synnott of New Zealand claimed a triple crown with victory, adding to her gold medal at X Games Aspen and the ...
Teenager Yuto Totsuka finished second in the men's superpipe event on Sunday at the Winter X Games in Aspen. In his X Games debut, the 17-year-old posted 90.00 points on his first and best run that featured a frontside 540 grabbed stalefish and a massive ...
Teenager Yuto Totsuka posted a 92.00-point run on Saturday and finished second at the men's halfpipe World Cup in Switzerland. The 17-year-old snowboarder bookended his soaring run with frontside double corks, but was upstaged by Australia's Scotty James, who claimed his second victory of the ...
Madarao: The tree skiing capital of Japan?
The Madarao Kogen ski resort prides itself on two things: its powder snow ("Madapow!") — enjoying over 10 meters of fresh snow annually — and its tree skiing. It is less well-known than some of its rivals within the prefecture, but that just ...
