Jamie Anderson wins silver in Olympic Big Air
Submitted by paula on Wed, 02/21/2018 - 6:20pm
With a forecast of gusty winds, the Olympic organizers moved the Women's Snowboard Big Air medal runs up one day, and a South Lake Tahoe resident is walking away with a medal in the first ever Big Air event at the Olympics.
Jamie Anderson added to her medal count, wining a silver medal in Big Air with jumps that scored 90.00 and 87.25. Her third jump did not score.
Austria's Anna Gasser, with a pair of extremely progressive tricks, won the gold in women's snowboard big air with a 89.00 and 96.00. Her first jump did not score.
Gasser landed all three of her jumps in the big air final, but it was the last one — a cab double cork 1080 — that knocked Jamie Anderson out of the top spot and gave Gasser the win.
Anderson ended up with a silver medal. It's her second medal of these Olympics and the third medal of her career.
New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott took bronze.
Fears of gusty winds around PyeongChang, South Korea, late Thursday into Friday prompted officials to adjust schedules once again. The event was moved up to Thursday, Feb. 22 at 9:30 a.m. (PyeongChang time). Downhill and slalom events have been moved up as well.
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