Japan's gold medal hopeful Kokomo Murase sank and finished 10th in the women's snowboard slopestyle at the Beijing Winter Games on Sunday while New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski Synnott earned her country's first ever Winter Olympics gold medal.The 17-year-old Murase missed becoming Japan's youngest-ever female medalist at the Winter Games, scoring 49.05 points, while compatriot Reira Iwabuchi finished fifth with 80.03."I'm frustrated I fell in three runs and wasn't able to deliver the tricks I wanted," said Murase, who was the youngest winter X Games gold medalist when she triumphed in the 2018 b…READ FULL ARTICLE
