Beijing Olympic gold medalist Ryoyu Kobayashi confirmed his place on the Japanese men's ski jumping team for the Milan-Cortina Winter Games with a second-place finish in Sunday's World Cup competition in Sapporo.Ren Nikaido and Naoki Nakamura also sealed their Olympic selections, but 53-year-old great Noriaki Kasai was unable to secure one of Japan's three men's ski jumping berths for the Feb. 6-22 games in northern Italy.Kobayashi, who won men's individual normal hill gold and large hill silver four years ago at the Beijing Games, will be representing Japan at his third straight Olympics.N…READ FULL ARTICLE