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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Men's ski slopestyle skiing...[ 3606 ]

Americans sweep ski slopestyle medals

Lindsay H. Jones, USA TODAY/6:17 a.m. EST February 13, 2014

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia -- Joss Christensen was the last men's slopestyle skier to make the U.S. Olympic team, but on Thursday he put together dominant runs, leading a sweep of medals for the Americans.

Joss Christensen (USA, 34) wins gold, Gus Kenworthy (USA, 8) wins silver, and Nicholas Goepper (USA, 1) wins bronze in the men's ski slopestyle final during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.

Christensen scored 95.8 in the final to win gold. Teammates Gus Kenworthy (93.6) and Nick Goepper (92.4) took silver and bronze respectively at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
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Christensen, a discretionary pick on the U.S. team, posted the highest score on his first run, landing a triple cork. On his second run, he scored 93.80.
The 22-year-old skier from Park City, Utah, posted the three best scores of the day, including his second run in qualifying.
"He may have been viewed as an underdog, but his teammates and rival skiers believed he was the favorite based on his week of training leading up to Thursday's competition," said U.S freeskiing coach Skogen Sprang.
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Kenworthy and Goepper also landed the difficult triple cork jump in their medal runs.
It marked only the third time that the U.S. has swept the medals in a Winter Games event. The other two were in men's figure skating at the 1956 Games in Cortina d' Ampezzo and men's snowboard halfpipe at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.
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Besides the three medalists, American Bobby Brown also made the final and finished ninth.
"You kind of think about it before, but you don't expect it to happen," Sprang said of the U.S. medal sweep. "I knew they all had a chance to medal whether it was one or or three. They did their jobs, stomped their runs and crushed it."
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Slopestyle skiing and snowboarding made their Winter Games debut here. American Devin Logan won silver in the women's event Tuesday.
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