Sixteen-year-olds Sara Shimizu and Rise Kudo led a Japanese quartet into the women's snowboard halfpipe final Tuesday at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.Shimizu, the runner-up at the world championships last year in Switzerland, scored 87.50 points to qualify second and Kudo earned 84.75 for her second run to place fourth at Livigno Snow Park.Two-time defending Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim of the United States topped qualification with 90.25, while Japan's Beijing Games bronze medalist Sena Tomita was ninth and 2022-23 overall World Cup winner Mitsuki Ono scraped through to the 12-woma…READ FULL ARTICLE