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An American freestyle skier made it to the Winter Olympics by simply managing to stay on her feet before performing two runs with just the most basic stunts.

Elizabeth Swaney, 33, achieved enough points to reach Pyeongchang after realising it was possible by merely recording a score in every qualifying run.

Swaney, who is representing Hungary at the games in South Korea, finished last in the qualifying rounds for the women’s halfpipe final on Monday.

She laid down two incredibly basic runs during which she performed very simple stunts.

Her most adventurous trick was an alley-oop – when a skier rotates 180 degrees or more in the uphill direction.

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The Harvard Graduate, who once ran against Arnold Schwarzenegger in the battle to become California governor, scored 30.00 and 31.40 in her runs.

The skier’s top score landed her 13.60 points behind 23rd-placed Laila Friis-Salling, from Denmark, who fell in both runs.

Following her performance Swaney told the Guardian: “I didn’t qualify for the finals, so I’m really disappointed with that. But I worked really for several years to achieve this.”