Ryusei Yamada scored his maiden World Cup win and Yuto Totsuka booked his ticket to a third straight Winter Olympics as Japan grabbed gold and silver in the men's snowboard halfpipe final at Colorado's Copper Mountain on Friday.The 19-year-old Yamada received 94.50 points for a high-flying second run to finish four points clear of Totsuka, 24, who joins Beijing 2022 gold medalist Ayumu Hirano and three-time reigning overall World Cup champion Ruka Hirano on the Japanese men's team for the Milan-Cortina Games.Japan is eligible to send the maximum of four men and four women to contest the eve…READ FULL ARTICLE
