All posts tagged "snowboard"
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Features
/ 1 year ago[ODDS and EVENS] Snowboarder Reira Iwabuchi Continues to Push the Boundaries at Winter X Games
Executing difficult techniques on her snowboard is a never-ending quest for Reira Iwabuchi. The 21-year-old won the women's big air event...
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Features
/ 2 years ago[JAPAN SPORTS NOTEBOOK] Arnold Schwarzenegger Invokes Soviet Olympic Hero in Message to Russians
The former California governor, movie star and bodybuilder recalls boyhood idol Yury Vlasov in an emotional anti-war video.
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Olympics and Paralympics
/ 2 years agoBeijing Olympians Show Off Range of Japan's Talent and Skills with Great Results
Team Japan finished the 2022 Winter Games with 18 medals, collecting top-three finishes in seven different sports.
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Olympics and Paralympics
/ 2 years agoTeenage Snowboarder Kokomo Murase Grabs Bronze in Women’s Big Air
Japanese athletes put on quite a show on February 15 in the exciting finals of both the men’s and women's competitions.
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Olympics and Paralympics
/ 2 years agoOLYMPIC DIGEST | Japan Men Finish Fifth in Team Ski Jumping Final
Gold medalist Austria saves its best for last in the final round, with Slovenia and Germany placing second and third, respectively.
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Olympics and Paralympics
/ 2 years agoOLYMPIC DIGEST | Ryoyu Kobayashi Barely Misses Golden Double in Ski Jumping
The 25-year-old becomes only the second Japanese to medal on both hills at the same Olympics, after Kazuyoshi Funaki in 1998...
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Olympics and Paralympics
/ 2 years agoSNOWBOARD | Ayumu Hirano Captures Gold in Men’s Halfpipe
After consecutive runner-up finishes in Sochi and Pyeongchang, the 23-year-old collects the top Olympic prize in Beijing.
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Olympics and Paralympics
/ 2 years agoSena Tomita Collects Bronze in Women’s Halfpipe
American snowboarder Chloe Kim defended her Olympic title with a top score of 94.00 points on her first run, while Tomita...
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Olympics and Paralympics
/ 2 years agoOLYMPIC DIGEST | Akito Watabe Comes Up Short in First Nordic Combined Event at Beijing Games
The Pyeongchang silver medalist could never recover from a sub-par jump on the normal hill.
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Olympics and Paralympics
/ 2 years agoOLYMPIC DIGEST | Smile Japan Triumphs Over Czechs in Penalty Shootout, Wins Group B
Hanae Kubo scored the dramatic winning goal in Japan’s final match of the ice hockey tournament's preliminary round.
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Olympics and Paralympics
/ 2 years agoOLYMPIC DIGEST | Speed Skater Miho Takagi Repeats as 1,500-Meter Silver Medalist
Dutch superstar Ireen Wust defended her 2018 Pyeongchang Games title and collected her sixth overall Olympic gold to hold off Takagi’s...
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Olympics and Paralympics
/ 2 years agoOLYMPIC DIGEST | Japan Lands Two Spots in Top 10 in Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle Final
Reira Iwabuchi placed fifth and compatriot Kokomo Murase earned a 10th-place finish in her Olympic debut.