Japanese snowboarder Kokomo Murase overcame challenging weather conditions to win her first World Cup slopestyle title of the season Sunday at the Laax Open in Switzerland.Following a delay caused by high winds, a dominant Murase scored 77.55 points as she ran away with the women's title ahead of second-place Lily Dhawornvej of the United States on 71.18, with Austria's Anna Gasser rounding out the podium on 69.70.The 21-year-old Murase took her career World Cup gold medal tally to eight, including big air competitions, in her last event on the circuit before next month's Milan-Cortina Wint…READ FULL ARTICLE