World champion Yuto Totsuka believes the brutal lessons he learned in his young career will help him reach the top step of the Olympic podium in Beijing next month, four years after his games debut ended on a stretcher rather than a snowboard.Winning Japan's first Olympic snowboard gold medal will be no easy task at the Feb. 4-20 games as he will have to overcome fellow Japanese and two-way skateboarding and snowboarding star Ayumu Hirano and three-time Olympic champion Shaun White, among others."I feel like I've finally reached the world level, but I still have worries and fear. But I'm eq…READ FULL ARTICLE
