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American skier Alex Hall secured the gold medal with his first run in the freeski slopestyle event in Beijing, despite his opponents trying 30 more times and failing to outscore him.
The 23-year-old student from Salt Lake City, Utah, could not be beaten after he earned the top score on his first attempt and saw his rivals fail time after time to beat his initial mark of 90.01.
His next two scores didn’t matter, as he had topped the leaderboard and stayed there.
‘It’s definitely was the best slopestyle run I’ve ever done, mainly because it embodied everything I love about skiing and how I approach skiing and I didn’t fade away from that to try and maybe get bigger scores or something,’ Hall said after the event.
‘I just kept it true to myself, and I think that’s the most important part about our sport is just doing it for the love and doing it how you want to do it and not changing that.
American skier Alex Hall, 23, has secured the gold medal with his first run in the Freeski Slopestyle event in Beijing
The student from Salt Lake City, Utah, could not be beaten after he earned the top score on his first attempt
He saw his rivals fail time after time to beat his initial mark of 90.01
His next two scores didn’t matter, as he had topped the leaderboard and stayed there
‘It’s definitely was the best slopestyle run I’ve ever done, mainly because it embodied everything I love about skiing and how I approach skiing and I didn’t fade away from that to try and maybe get bigger scores or something,’ Hall said after the event
At the last Winter OIympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Hall finished out of the medals and in 16th place.
Teammate Nicholas Goepper, 27 (left), of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, had to settle for silver with his best score of 86.48
The bronze medal went to Swede Jesper Tjader (right), whose best attempt on the slope was 85.35
‘Honestly I was really, really surprised I landed the…
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