Strong winds create full-blown mess on second to last day of 2022 WinterOlympics
Nico Porteous of New Zealand was thrilled to escape the halfpipe with a men’s freestyle skiing gold. Bronze winner Alex Ferreira was happy to escape at all.Porteous hit his head while trying a double-cork 1440 on his final run. Earlier, he had executed two 1620-degree spins — one spinning to his right, the other to his left — that was good for a score of 93 and a lead nobody was going to overcome.
“Pretty gnarly,” said Gus Kenworthy, the 2014 silver medalist, who finished eighth despite taking one of the hardest falls when he slammed his back into the deck.Shiffrin, a two-time gold medalist, has gone 0 for 5hunting another medal in Beijing but is hoping to nab one in her sixth race, a team event making its second appearance at the Winter Games. Shiffrin’s haul from past Olympics includes two golds, but her best showing in five individual events in Beijing was ninth place in the super-G.
The two-time world champions, buoyed by the support of a carefully selected crowd of Chinese supporters, scored a world-record 239.88 points to edge Russian pair Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov by 63 hundredths of a point.China got its ninth gold medal at the Beijing Games, nearly double its previous Winter Olympic best of five.
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