Jamie Anderson qualifies for 2018 Winter Olympics
Submitted by paula on Sat, 12/16/2017 - 11:14pm
Reigning Olympic gold medalist Jamie Anderson has always had success at Dew Tour events, and her Saturday second-place finish in the women’s slopestyle snowboarding final in Breckenridge, Colorado, got her something much more than another medal.
As the top American woman on the podium, Anderson qualified for her second Olympic Winter Games and earned the chance to defend her title in PyeongChang in February. She will also be able to add a medal in another event as all slopestyle riders will also compete in big air as it makes its Olympic debut.
Anderson, 27, led in qualifying, where she was the only rider to break 90 with a run that included a backside 540, switch frontside 540 and a frontside 720. She opted out of her second run to save herself for the final.
The 27-year-old Anderson joins other South Lake Tahoe residents Hannah Teter, 30, and Maddie Bowman, 23, as local Olympians who competed in the 2014 games in Sochi. Hannah is working to make it to her 4th straight Olympics in snowboarding. She has won both gold and silver in the halfpipe. Maddie won gold in Sochi in skiing halfpipe and is coming off knee surgeries to make the team.
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