Olympics: Free mind helps Fukada create Japanese Winter Games history

LIVIGNO, Italy - By changing her mindset on mistakes, Mari Fukada was able to overcome an early blip in the women's snowboard slopestyle final to become Japan's youngest female Winter Olympic gold medalist at 19.

After falling on the first of her three runs at Livigno Snow Park on Wednesday, it was difficult to imagine what was about to come in a discipline in which she has only one World Cup win.