Epic Tricks Lift US Freestyle Skiers To 1-2 Olympic Finish
Feb 16, 2022, 11:06 AM | Updated: 12:24 pm
BEIJING (AP) — Innovative American freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper landed jaw-dropping tricks on the Secret Garden slopestyle course and won the gold and silver medals in slopestyle at the Beijing Olympics.
Hall clinched the gold on the first of three runs when he defied gravity with a trick called “right double 10 pretzel one.”
ALEX HALL'S GOLDEN RUN. 🥇@TeamUSA's Alex Hall captured the Olympic gold medal in men's freeski slopestyle on his very first run. #WinterOlympicspic.twitter.com/Pwvrtmk1Te
— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 16, 2022
He spun 900 degrees one way and, as G-forces took over, stopped the spin in midair and spun 180 degrees the other way.
He stuck the landing and skied in backward to the finish, earning a score of 90.01. Goepper clinched the silver with a score of 86.48 on his second run.
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