After winning his first Winter Olympic gold medal four years ago, a seventh place finish this February in northern Italy ended snowboarding icon Ayumu Hirano's run of podium finishes at the games following his silvers in 2014 and 2018.But an incredible comeback from a hip fracture, suffered less than a month before the halfpipe event in Livigno, epitomized the 27-year-old who wants to "go as far as possible" as he eyes his fifth straight Winter Games in 2030 in the French Alps."It was some injury. One that I don't even want to recall," the Niigata Prefecture native said in a recent intervie…READ FULL ARTICLE
