LIVIGNO, Italy - A dominant Hiroto Ogiwara led a Japanese quartet into the men's snowboard big air final at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Thursday.

The first athletes to compete among the Japanese delegation at these games, the four made the top 12 in the qualifying round with Ogiwara leading the 30-man field, scoring 178.50 points at Livigno Snow Park in northern Italy.

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