US freeskier Alex Hall threw down a progressive run to capture slopestyle gold Wednesday at the 2022 Winter Olympics, while teammate Nick Goepper repeated his silver from PyeongChang for a third career Games medal. Alaska-born Hall, 23, capped off his first run with a right double cork 1080 into a 900 — the equivalent of … Read more
Snowboarder Julia Marino netted the United States its first medal of the 2022 Beijing Olympics after earning the silver in women’s slopestyle snowboarding Sunday. Event favorite Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand took the gold — the country’s first in a winter Olympics — with a score of 92.88 on her final run. Sadowski-Synnott, 20, beat … Read more
ZHANGJIAKOU, China— American Julia Marino was almost a gold medalist in women’s slopestyle, but instead New Zealand made Olympic history. Zoi Sadowski Synnott captured New Zealand’s first gold medal in Winter Olympic history, stomping down a pressure-packed run on her last trip down the mountain Sunday to win. The 20-year-old was one of the very … Read more