On Tuesday, February 20, after three rounds of high-flying halfpipe skiing by the world’s most talented ladies, the Olympic medalists have been decided. With her undeniably huge airs and technical tricks, Canada’s Cassie Sharpe—a heavy favorite going into the event—took home the gold medal; Marie Martinod from France earned the silver medal; and, Brita Sigourney scored just higher than her teammate Annelise Drew to clinch the Bronze medal on her third-and-final run.
2018 Olympic Winter Games, ski slopestyle results:
1. Cassie Sharpe ???????? — 95.80
2. Marie Martinod ???????? — 92.60
3. Brita Sigourney ???????? — 91.60
4. Annelise Drew ???????? — 90.80
5. Ayana Onozuka ???????? — 82.20
6. Valeria Demidova ???????? — 80.60
7. Rowan Cheshire ????????— 75.40
8. Sabrina Cakmakli ????????— 74.20
9. Zhang Kexin ???????? — 73.00
10. Rosalind Groenewoud ???????? — 70.60
11. Maddie Bowman ???????? — 27.00
12. Anais Caradeux ???????? — DNS
Olympic Pipe-stagrams
The skiing community weighs in:
Yeah @CassieSharpe @MarieMartinod & @britasig!!! So fun watching you ladies tonight. Well done!
— Michelle Parker (@MyshellParker) February 20, 2018
Flag hugs ✅
Crying moms ✅Looks like @britasig won a medal!! ???????????? #TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/rLMQJzxvbu
— U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team (@usskiteam) February 20, 2018
Cassie Sharpe goes huge on the first hit of her victory lap. ???????????? Marie Martinod with her second Olympic silver. ????????????Must have been hard for Brita Sigourney to drop in knowing if she landed her best run, she'd knock her teammate, Annalisa Drew, off the podium. She did. ????????????
— Alyssa Roenigk (@alyroe) February 20, 2018
Thank you @CassieSharpe for pushing our sport and showing it to the world in the best way possible! ????????❤️ #CelebrateSarah.#halfpipe #olympics #skiing #pyeongchang2018 #freestyle
— Isabelle Hanssen (@IsabelleHanssen) February 20, 2018
2018 Olympic Winter Games fun facts
The XXIII Olympic Winter Games will be held for 17 days from February 9-25, 2018, in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province, the Republic of Korea. This marks the first time the Olympics have been staged in Korea since the Summer Games were hosted in Seoul, in 1988. Japan is the only other Asian country to have hosted the Olympic Winter Games in both 1972 (Sapporo) and 1998 (Nagano).
More than 2,800 athletes from 95 nations are expected to participate in 7 sports, and 15 sport disciplines, between 102 medal events—the most ever contested at an Olympic Winter Games to date. Yup, this will be the first ever Olympic Winter Games to hand out over 100 gold medals! A total of 6 new events—such as snowboard big air (men, women), speed skating mass start (men, women), curling mixed doubles and an alpine skiing team event—have been added to the program.
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games will be contested across 12 competition venues spread between 2 clusters: a coastal cluster of arenas for skating and curling and a mountain cluster for skiing and sliding.
The Paralympic Games will run March 9-18, 2018. More than 670 athletes representing 45 nations are expected to compete in a total of 6 sports and a total of 80 events.
Lee Suk-Woo is the designer of the medals for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. He incorporated Hangeul (the Korean alphabet and the foundation of Korean culture) into the design of the medals by using a series of three-dimensional consonants. The ribbons attached to the medals are made from Gapsa, a traditional Korean fabric. Each gold medal weighs 586 grams (1.29 pounds); silver medals weigh 580 grams (1.28 pounds); and bronze medals clock in at 493 grams (1.09 pounds), making them the heaviest Olympic medals in history.
2018 Olympic freeskiing contest & TV schedule
Note: Korea Standard Time is 16 hours ahead of Mountain Time; where an event may be listed as taking place on February 16, keep in mind, it may in fact be taking place on February 17 across the pond. OK, dive in!
Monday, February 19, 2018:
Women’s freeski halfpipe finals ???? — 6:00 p.m. MT (NBC primetime coverage; nbcolympics.com)
Men’s freeski halfpipe qualifying — 9:00 p.m. MT (NBC primetime coverage; nbcolympics.com)
Tuesday, February 21, 2018:
Men’s freeski halfpipe finals ???? — 7:30 p.m. MT (NBC primetime coverage; nbcolympics.com)
*Schedule above is subject to change.
For the full run-down of Olympic events and associated television coverage, visit nbcolympics.com/live-stream-schedule.
