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Selina Joerg, Dmitry Loginov nab gold in parallel giant slalom at worlds
Selina Joerg of Germany captured gold by beating Russia's Natalia Soboleva in the final of the women's parallel giant slalom at the freestyle ski and snowboard world championships. Joerg took the victory Monday with Olympic gold medalist Ester Ledecka missing from the competition. The Czech ...
Snowboarder Chloe Kim has long been in a class by her herself in the lofty subjects of double corks and front-side twists. Soon, instead of defying physics, she could be learning some. And instead of making history, she will study it. Kim is trading in a ...
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 ...
Where to buy ski and snowboard gear in Tokyo
Need winter sports equipment? The Kanda-Ogawamachi district to the east of Jinbocho Station is far and away the best place to purchase ski and snowboard gear in the capital.
Snowboarders Reira Iwabuchi, Miyabi Onitsuka finish 1-2 in women's big air event in season opener
Reira Iwabuchi and Miyabi Onitsuka claimed gold and silver, respectively, Saturday in the women's big air at the snowboard World Cup season opener in Cardrona, New Zealand. Iwabuchi landed backside and frontside 720 mute grabs at Cardrona Alpine Resort to net 174.40 points and first ...
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.
