China’s freeski athlete Gu Ailing won her second gold of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Friday, becoming the first freestyle skier to win three medals at a single Games. The 18-year-old superstar topped the podium(领奖台) in the halfpipe(U型场地技巧) final at Zhangjiakou’s Genting Snow Park, adding to her gold in the big air event last week and silver in slopestyle on Tuesday.
Gu, who says halfpipe is her strongest event, dominated from the start. Again and again, she sped up the wall of the halfpipe and launched herself skyward, spinning and twisting gracefully to loud cheers from fans in the stands.
Already firmly in the lead, she did better in the second run with an impressive score of 95.25. She was already assured of the gold by the time she set off on a third run victory lap.
Gu gave her coach a big hug at the top of the slope, came down the halfpipe once again and finished the ride with easy jumps, posing and celebrating her victory in midair.
“I’ve never taken a victory lap before in my entire life, so I felt like, ‘You know what, last event at the Olympics it feels like I finally deserve it’. I’m really happy,” Gu told reporters after her win, according to the Olympic site. “It has been two straight weeks of the most intense highs and lows I’ve ever experienced in my life. It has changed my life forever,” she said.
China’s Gu Ailing made Winter Olympics history on Friday by winning her third freeski medal. She also wore a panda hat as she received her Bing Dwen Dwen mascot on the podium, causing a stir among her fans on Chinese social media.
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