American men sweep ski slopestyle medals
Baku, February 13 (AZERTAC). Joss Christensen was the last men's slopestyle skier selected for the U.S. Olympic team, and even after winning the final qualifying event in Park City last month, his inclusion on the team was a controversial one as he was selected over several worthy American skiers.
Yet all Christensen did when he arrived in Sochi was become the most dominant skier from the time practices began last week through his victory lap second run in Thursday's finals of the inaugural ski slopestyle competition. Christensen posted three of the top four scores of the day to lead an American sweep of the medals.
Christensen, a 22-year-old from Park City, scored 95.80 to win gold. Teammates Gus Kenworthy (93.6) and Nick Goepper (92.4) took silver and bronze respectively at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park. It was the first American sweep at a Winter Games since the U.S. won three medals in men's snowboard halfpipe at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.
Christensen, a discretionary pick on the U.S. team, posted the highest score on his first run in finals, landing a switch triple 1440 jump, a trick he only learned and then decided to insert into his run two days ago during practice.
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