A 16-year-old Japanese snowboarder suffered a horrific cr4sh in the finals of the men's halfpipe competition after high winds caused h4v0c in Pyeongchang.
Snow-sports prodigy Yuto Totsuka landed in a crumpled heap and needed to be stretchered from the course in what commentators described as one of the worst accidents they had ever seen in the competition.
The crash comes amid a wave of criticism from athletes who have hit out at the dangerous and windy conditions they have being forced to compete in in at the Winter Games in South Korea.
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