Japan's Sena Tomita won her 1st X Games snowboard halfpipe championship Saturday, when compatriot Haruna Matsumoto was third for the third straight event.Tomita landed a front-side 1080 with a tail grab in her third run, finishing ahead of Spanish runner-up Queralt Castellet to secure her first major title abroad. Fellow Japanese Kurumi Imai, who along with Tomita has qualified for the upcoming Beijing Olympics, came fourth."I did the things I wanted to do and still won. It boosts my confidence," said a tearful Tomita, who was eighth at the 2018 Olympics before a brain contusion in 2019 for…READ FULL ARTICLE
