🇯🇵 Yuto Totsuka won gold on Friday after landing a smooth run in a competitive men’s snowboarding halfpipe final, narrowly beating 🇦🇺 Scotty James, a four-time World champion. Totsuka, who also competed at the Winter Games in 2018 and 2022, landed back-to-back triple cork 1440s to win his first Olympic medal. Visualization produced by Alice Fang, Jon Huang, Matt Ruby, Eden Weingart, Yuhan Liu, Avner Peled, Dan Powell and Marion Lozano/The New York Times #YutoTotsuka #ScottyJames #olympics #milanocortina2026 #snowboarding