{"id":2882,"date":"2021-02-09T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2021-02-09T09:48:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:48:56","slug":"fourth-year-sports-sciences-student-miyabi-onitsuka-scores-silver-in-snowboard-big-air-at-x-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/news-en\/2021\/02\/09\/2882\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth-Year Sports Sciences Student Miyabi Onitsuka Scores Silver in Snowboard Big Air at X Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At X Games Aspen 2021, the extreme sports competition held in Aspen, Colorado, fourth-year Waseda sports science student Miyabi Onitsuka (affiliated with the Hoshino Resort team) took second place in the snowboard big air event on January 31.<\/p>\n<p>Snowboard big air is an event where the competitors ride down a steep ramp and perform tricks in the air after launching off a large jump. Points are given for difficulty and completion. Big air became the newest official Olympic snowboarding event at Pyeongchang 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In the final, competitors were scored on the best two of their total of five runs. Onitsuka landed a breathtaking move on her first run, scoring 47 of a total 50 points, then 39 points on her third run for a total of 86 points to take the silver medal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keep cheering for Miyabi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At X Games Aspen 2021, the extreme sports competition held in Aspen, Colorado, fourth-year Waseda sports scien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[94,81,71,93],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-general-en","tag-global-en","tag-sports-en","tag-student-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}