Blazing a trail without a single technical supervisor, Japan's first Alpine snowboard world champion Tsubaki Miki is looking to add a Milan Cortina Olympic gold as she continues to self-coach, aided by a team she has assembled.Ninth in the parallel giant slalom at her Olympic debut in 2022, Miki won the world championships in Georgia aged 19 in February 2023, the season in which she began competing without a snowboarding adviser after a strategy change by the Ski Association of Japan.She navigated the season with help from her long-standing trainer -- whose specialty is athletics -- and a s…READ FULL ARTICLE