Elizabeth Lemley and Jaelin Kauf received gold and silver for Staff USA in ladies’s freestyle moguls snowboarding on the Winter Olympics on Wednesday.
Lemley received the eight-skier last with a rating of 82.30 factors. The 20-year-old from Vail, Colorado, is making her Olympic debut on the Milan Cortina Video games.
Through the medal ceremony, Lemley’s gold indifferent from its ribbon, an concern that organizers have acknowledged has been taking place to a “restricted quantity” of medalists. At a information convention afterward, Lemley displayed her repaired medal.
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Kauf repeated as silver medalist with a rating of 80.77. The 29-year-old from Alta, Wyoming, additionally received silver in 2022 in Beijing.
Each of Kauf’s mother and father have been skilled mogul skiers.
“My mother has at all times been my largest hero and function mannequin, simply watching how she’s simply gone at life and accomplished what she’s accomplished, pushing the boundaries,” she instructed CBS Information forward of the Video games.
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Perrine Laffont of France, the 2018 gold medalist, took bronze in Wednesday’s finals.
Defending champion Jakara Anthony of Australia completed eighth after slipping on the final run of the ultimate.
