Defending Olympic halfpipe champion Ayumu Hirano has qualified for the men's final less than month after the Japanese rider injured his face and pelvis in a nasty fall ...

LIVIGNO, Italy--Given the injuries he’s overcome in the past month, there’s no blaming defending Olympic champion Ayumu Hirano for just being happy to be here. The halfpipe riders trying to take his ...

Australia's Scotty James beat out Japan's Ayumu Hirano and his triple cork for men's halfpipe gold at X Games Aspen on Friday. Once again, the men’s snowboard halfpipe competition at X Games aspen ...

Yoshihisa Hirano is heading back to Nippon Professional Baseball, as the Orix Buffaloes announced that the right-hander has signed a one-year deal. According to The Mainichi and other news outlets, ...

Japanese snowboarder Ayumu Hirano, who won gold in the 2022 Olympics men’s halfpipe competition is now speaking out against the process that nearly let him down in a huge way and led to a judging ...

For the second time in a week, judging controversy became the central narrative of an Olympic men’s snowboarding final. This time, however, the judges got—and, thankfully, took—a chance to correct it.

Hirano seeks Japan%27s first Olympic medal in halfpipe He moved to the U.S. with his brother to train COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. – Moments before he put down an X Games run that would make him the ...

Olympic halfpipe champion Ayumu Hirano was named to the Japanese team heading to next month’s Milan Cortina Games despite breaking bones in his face in an accident at a contest in Switzerland over the ...

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Ayumu Hirano saved his best for last. By doing so, the Japanese rider might have saved snowboarding from a good, old-fashioned judging mess. Hirano linked his trendsetting, ...