Winter Olympics: Chloe Kim goes for gold in women’s snowboard halfpipe – live
No! It’s only an 84.00? She’s fourth behind Ono.Sure, Ono’s run was very good, but … that’s a stunner.Last person to go.Here goes Chloe Kim …CURRENT PODIUM 90.
25 Choi 88.00 Kim (one more run) 85.00 OnoAside from Chloe Kim, the only person left to go is Japan’s Sara Shimuzu.Double cork 1080 on her second trip.Frontside 900.
Oh my.Could this drop Chloe Kim to bronze, pending her final run?Maddie Mastro does her long visualization again.She goes for the double crippler again.And she falls again.She’ll finish 12th, again.
But you have to respect people who take the “go big or go home” ethos to such lengths.Rise Kudo also has landed her first two runs, but she has to go even bigger to land on the podium, and she can’t land all her landings.I need a thesaurus.If I’ve done the math correctly, the USA will medal because there are only two riders who can knock out Kim, and one is Maddie Mastro, who’s up now.Cai Xuetong landed her first two runs.
She opens with a 1080 and is putting together something special until her fifth landing, which she can’t stick.No improvement, and the people in the podium places can breathe a bit easier.That would’ve put her in contention.It’s snowing hard again, and Choi Gaon is in the pipe, which is impressive in its own right after her devastating crash in the first run.She loads up with three 900s, and everything is clean.
Up to the judges … who are taking some times …90,25! She’s ahead of her mentor Chloe Kim!Hosking walks away, which is a relief to see,Here goes Castellet …Her first trick looks shaky,But her fourth is a very good 900, and she does another on her fifth! She lands it … but no! She can’t stay upright through the finish,Maybe a podium would’ve been tough to reach, but top five seemed likely.
The veteran bows out with a 33,50, the best score of those who crashed on all of their runs so far,Can Canada’s Elizabeth Hosking make it through her impressive set of tricks without slipping at the end? She could contend for the podium if she does,Unfortunately, no,She hits the lip of the wall and falls hard on her back.
She’s moving around and able to unclip from her board, but she’s in pain and will get medical attention.Sena Tomita tries the same tricks as she did in her second run, which was only good for seventh.She’ll stay there after hitting the lip of the pipe and sliding down.Bea Kim goes big with her first three tricks but slips.She won’t improve from sixth, but she’s given a very good account of herself here at age 19.
Mitsuki Ono is in second and could legitimately challenge Chloe Kim.The snow is falling again.And Ono falls in the same place where she fell in the second run, about halfway down.She’ll stay where she is.Wu Shaotong runs nearly the same routine as her second run but changes one grip and is smooth enough to improve to 78.
00, moving into fifth ahead of Bea Kim.Everyone gets one more chance to improve …88.00 C.Kim (USA) 85.00 Ono (Japan) 81.
75 Kudo (Japan) – improved from 77,50 80,75 Cai (China) – improved from 73,00 77,00 B.
Kim (USA) – improved from 7.25 70.25 Wu (China) – improved from 67.75 68.25 Tomita (Japan) – improved from 23.
50Hosking (Canada) has come close to completing a strong routine but hasn’t done so.What else can Chloe Kim do? Maybe launch herself into orbit?The first three tricks are the same as in her first run – 720, switch with big amplitude, double cork 1080 again, and she tries back-to-back double corks!But no, she can’t land that one.If she finishes that off in the last run, judges will run out of numbers.Sara Shimuzu also wiped out in her first run.The 16-year-old lands the 1080 double cork this time but only just, and she loses so much momentum that she can’t get through her third trick.
No improvement.Here comes Chloe again …The good news for Maddie Mastro is that the snow stopped a while ago and is no longer a factor.Will she once again attempt an otherworldly trick to start?She goes through her visualization again.I want this woman to be my life coach.Frontside double crippler again … and she crashes again.
At this point, though, she probably can’t dial it back for her third run.She’ll have to try it again.Rise Kudo is the rider who was just bumped out of third place.How will she answer?(Side note: The Japanese judge gave her a 77 on her first run, lower than several other judges!)This looks good early.She seems to lose a bit of speed partway through, but she finishes with a 1080.
Is that enough to get back on the podium? Yes it is! 81.75, a point ahead of Cai.Cai Xuetong had a solid 73.00 in her first run and managed to sneak in a sixth trick, which is unusual.She starts with a frontside 1080 and has a solid run, but her landings don’t look as smooth as Chloe Kim’s.
She once again sneaks in a sixth trick,She’ll improve into a podium place, surely,And she does,80,75, third behind Kim and Ono.
SURPRISE! Choi Gaon was listed on the results page as “DNS,” but she dashed to the start line and started her second run!But she crashes early,Nothing that would cause an injury concern this time – just a slide on her backside,Shaun White is chatting with Snoop Dogg, because why not?Queralt Castellet Ibanez has four X Games medals, one gold,She has a solid run going but has to put a hand down to avoid a tumble, and that throws off her routine,She improves to 24.
00.Choi Gaon has withdrawn after her horrific crash in the first run.She won the X Games in 2023 at age 14.Real shame not to see her continue here.Elizabeth Hosking works hard to psych herself up.
She does a lot off-axis rather than rotating a lot until her fifth trick, where she rotates a lot for a 900 … and falls again.She pounds the snow in frustration.She doesn’t improve from her 27.50.This wasn’t going to be a podium run, anyway, but she’d surely rather land this routine than not land it.
Sena Tomita is the 2002 X Games champion in addition to her Olympic bronze that year.She took time off after that.She attempts the same run as her first one, including a 1080 at the end, but remains upright this time.Her scores, unlike Bea Kim’s, are very consistent – all 68s or 69s.68.
25Bea Kim fell on her first trick in her first run,This time, she lands the 900, then a 720,She leaps more than 10 feet on her third trick and finishes with a 720,Ooooh, maybe I spoke too soon about controversies,That’s a 77.
00, fourth place, 0.5 behind Japan’s Rise Kudo.The Japanese judge gave her a 74, though that score is dropped.The other marks range from 75 to 80.Probably splitting hairs at this level, though.
Both very good runs.Mitsuki Ono, second after the first run, tries a 900 instead of a 540 early in her run, but she crashes after her third trick and will not improve her score.Run 2 will have the same start order as Run 1.Wu Shaotong runs almost the same routine as her first but changes her fourth trick from a 540 to 900.Her score bumps up accordingly
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