"Japan already has gold medal."' For the first time ever, the second day of the opening was harvested [Milan Olympics]

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Japan's first gold medal at the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo (Italy) Winter Olympics was announced. It's the second day of the tournament. It is the fastest first gold medal ever in the history of the Japanese Winter Olympics.

Japan's Kimura Kira won the gold medal in the men's snowboard big air at the Lvigno Snow Park in Valentina, Italy, on the 8th (Korea time) with 179.50 points.

Snowboard Big Air runs three times and scores two times with high scores to rank them. Kimura only scored 89.00 on Run 1 and 15.00 on Run 2, respectively, but he scored 90.50 points on Run 3.

It is the first time Japan has won a gold medal in two days after the opening of the Winter Olympics.

According to Japanese media Sports Hochi, Japan's previous shortest gold medal record was on the fourth day of the opening day of the ski jump event at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics. Kimura made history in Japanese sports with this gold medal.

Not only Kimura but also Ryoma Kimata won silver medals with 171.50 points, and Japan won gold and silver medals in this event alone. China's Su Yiming (168.50 points) won the bronze medal.

In addition to this event, Japan will challenge for gold medals in figure skating women, freestyle skiing men's moggles and dual moggles, women's big air, parallel competitions, halfpipe, slopestyle, and speed skating women's 1,500m events.

The U.S. media Sports Illustrated (SI) predicted that Japan will win nine gold medals in this competition, ranking third overall after Norway and the United States.

SI predicted that Korea will win the gold medal in the men's 1,000-meter short track speed skating event, the women's 1,500-meter Kim Ki-li and the men's 5,000-meter relay event.

The men's 1,000m short track speed skating will be held on the 13th, and the men's 5,000m relay and women's 1,500m relay will be held on the 21st.

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