Two occasions to this point at these Olympics. Two medals, too.China’s Eileen Gu is effectively on her solution to repeating an Olympic medal hat trick after putting second within the girls’s massive air competitors on Monday. She earned silver final week within the girls’s slopestyle competitors.Her streak continues. Gu, at 22 years outdated, nonetheless hasn’t entered an Olympic competitors with out incomes a medal. In actual fact, she hasn’t positioned decrease than second. On the 2022 Beijing Video games, she nabbed two golds and one silver, changing into the primary freestyle skier to assert three medals at one Video games. The concept she “misplaced” the large air and slopestyle golds this yr appears, to her, absurd. “Successful a medal within the Olympics is a life-changing expertise, and doing it 5 occasions is exponentially laborious,” she stated, per The Related Press. “The ‘two medals misplaced’ perspective is ridiculous to take. I’m showcasing my finest snowboarding and doing issues which have by no means been performed earlier than, so that’s greater than sufficient.”For Canada’s Megan Oldham, who received the large air competitors, it was additionally her second Olympic medal in 2026, becoming a member of a slopestyle bronze. She competed within the Olympics in 2022, too, however didn’t medal, ending fourth in massive air and thirteenth in slopestyle.Along with her gold medal efficiency, she delivered a milestone for Canada, claiming the nation’s first girls’s medal in massive air, which organizers added to the Olympic roster in 2022. “I’m simply so happy with myself and the group that’s been behind me to get me right here to this second and, fortunately, on the Olympics, I haven’t needed to suppose even as soon as about my head in any respect,” Oldham, who suffered a concussion a couple of months in the past and was not sure if she’d compete in Italy, stated, in accordance with The Athletic.“I’ve simply felt one hundred pc and been in a position to actually showcase my finest snowboarding, so I’m so joyful to be feeling wholesome and be capable of present my finest snowboarding right here on the Olympics,” she continued.
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The Italian Flora Tabanelli rounded out the rostrum, putting third. At 18, this was her Olympic debut.Gu has to maintain coaching. She’s a really uncommon triple risk competing in all three of the Olympic freeskiing disciplines: slopestyle, massive air, and halfpipe.Halfpipe, the final cease on her Olympic tour, is scheduled to begin on Thursday with a qualifying occasion. The finals are scheduled for Saturday and will ship Gu’s sixth Olympic medal in a row. Possibly it’ll be gold.
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