In today’s article:

How the USA win their 7th gold of the Winter Olympics 2018

American Freestyle skier David Wise defends title

How David Wise and Alex Ferreira turned halfpipe Skiing into a team event

On the 21st of February 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea all eyes were on the Half-pipe skiing event where two young Americans dominated the event.

David Wise won gold and teammate Alex Ferreira won silver placing the American team in the spotlight.

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David Wise Olympics 2018

Halfpipe skiing is quite an interesting sport which definitely catches the eye, as competitors perform a series of tricks whilst going down the pipe.

The sport is all about riding snow skis on a half-pipe, hence the name.

David Wise is currently the defending champion coming into this event and once again retained his title by scoring a monster score of 97.20.

For a moment we thought that he wouldn’t make it after two crashes out of his three runs but came back strong to win his gold medal.

Whilst runner-up Alex Ferreira earned his first Olympic medal by laying down three runs and scoring in the 90 percentile, finishing off with 96.40.

Also worth mentioning is third place winner Nico Porteous who is just 16 and scored a 94.80, and claiming an unexpected bronze medal.

US Ski Team

After successfully defending his gold medal from Sochi and winning the Gold medal in the halfpipe final at the Phoenix Snow Park on Thursday, all eyes are on the US ski team.

Silver Medal winner commented;

“Our trip has been so great because we’re so happy,” Ferreira said. “We love what we do.”

Ferreira turned out to be the most consistent skier out of the top three podium winners, finished off his Olympic experience with a 96.40 on his third run.

Head coach Mike Jankowski said that ‘He’s been on an absolute tear this past year. He’s just hungry. He’s as hungry as you get,”.

As for the defending champion, this is what the head coach had to say;

“It was flawless. It was just perfect,” said Jankowski. “He got all the grabs precisely, landed everything super clean, made it look just effortless and just had that flow going where everything connected trick to trick to trick. There was no wavering in his line.”

Seemed like it was almost a miss for wise but he commented saying;

“Landed it and I’m just over the moon. Absolutely it was the best run of my life,” Wise said. “Seeing Nico land his run, seeing Alex land some of the best runs of his life, hands down, I knew that we had put on the show the world deserved to see. I was able to drop in and let it ride.”

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