Three American women were in the finals for women's snowboard slopestyle at the Winter Olympics, one of whom was the defending queen of the event. American Julia Marino took silver to score the U.S. its first medal of the Beijing Winter Games. Two-time defending champion Jamie Anderson finished ninth and fellow American Hailey Langland finished 11th. Sadowski Synnott went into her last of three runs trailing Marino but came up big. A few minutes later, the scoreboard confirmed it, and New Zealand had its first Winter Games victory — brought home by an Australian-born shredder whose family moved to her father’s homeland when she was six.

Source: The Nation February 06, 2022 04:22 UTC