Japan's Taiga Hasegawa takes silver in men's slopestyle behind China's Su Yiming
Su Yiming celebrated his 22nd birthday by winning the men's snowboard slopestyle final on Wednesday to give China its first gold medal of the Milano Cortina Olympics. Japan's Taiga Hasegawa took silver, building on the record haul for Japanese snowboarders at the 2026 Games.Jake Canter earned bronze for the United States.Su, the slopestyle silver medallist in Beijing four years ago, started with an impressive first run for a score of 82.41 under sunny skies in the Alpine town of Livigno and could not be caught.
