One skier, Alex Ferreira, was dominant all day, pulling off the best run in the first heat, the best run of the second — and a run in the third heat that scored even higher than those two. [In Olympic freestyle halfpipe, four friends vie for three medals]In taking first place, Wise defended the gold medal he’d won in Sochi. Before taking off on his last run, Wise asked his coaches if he should try to pull off a technically difficult set of moves, four different kinds of double corks. During that qualifying round, U.S. skiers Aaron Blunck, Ferreira and Torin Yater-Wallace had posted the top three scores of the day. At least two skiers, including Yater-Wallace, took nasty spills on the lip of the halfpipe and went tumbling down.

Source: Washington Post February 22, 2018 03:54 UTC