Kira Kimura won the men's snowboarding big air event at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Saturday to earn Japan its first gold medal of the 2026 Winter Games.Kimura scored 179.50 points with a first jump of 89.00 and a third attempt of 90.50 to claim his first Olympic medal and the first for a Japanese man in the big air event in games history.Reigning world champion Ryoma Kimata made it a Japan one-two at Livigno Snow Park, scoring 171.50. China's Su Yiming, the 2022 Olympic gold medalist in the event, was third with 168.50."This year I spent a huge amount of time focused on snowboarding...my…READ FULL ARTICLE
