SNOWBOARD WUNDERKIND
Feb 17, 2022
4 minutes
By Ji Jing
Copyedited by G.P. Wilson
At Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, Chinese teenage snowboarder Su Yiming put down three stunning runs to win silver in the men’s snowboard slope-style on February 7. It was the first time a Chinese athlete had competed in this event at any Olympics.
Su scored his medal-winning 88.7 points in the second of his three runs, by performing a triple cork 1800, that is making five full rotations while doing three off-axis flips in the air, in the last section—the first time the trick has appeared at a Winter Olympics.
“I would like to thank my country, my parents and my friends. The medal
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