Struggling Japanese ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi picked up his much-awaited first World Cup victory of the season Friday in Sapporo.The Beijing Olympic normal hill champion's first win came in the 14th World Cup event of the 2022-23 season. It was his 28th career World Cup victory.Kobayashi's first-round jump of 135 meters on Sapporo's Okurayama Hill put him second in the standings before he added a 130-meter second jump to finish with 271.5 points, 7.2 ahead of Polish runner-up Dawid Kubacki."The win came as a surprise to even myself," the 26-year-old Kobayashi said. "I'm so happy for having…READ FULL ARTICLE
