Japanese snowboarder Yuto Totsuka outdueled two-time defending gold medalist Scotty James for his first X Games Aspen gold medal on Sunday night in the men's snowboard superpipe contest at Aspen, Colorado.The 19-year-old Totsuka had finished runner-up to Australia's snowboarding wonder boy James the past two years at X Games Aspen but came through with a massive third run to jump from third to first.X Games rookie Ruka Hirano, a fellow Japanese rider and an 18-year-old, took bronze.American Shaun White withdrew citing a knee injury from what was supposed to be his return to the Winter X Gam…READ FULL ARTICLE
