Injury prevented her from trying any tricks coming down the 155-foot big air ramp, but she still wanted to participate.
Jackson is the first Black woman to medal in the sport, and the first American woman to win an individual speed skating medal in 20 years.French snowboarder Lucile Lefevre was a crowd pleaser at Big Air Shougang all the same.
So she borrowed a head-to-toe tiger suit from Swiss snowboarder Nicolas Huber, giving a little flair to her otherwise straight-forward jumps. “It was not super beautiful," she said of her claws."So I decided for the last one to just say hi to the judges. And especially the French one, because it’s a friend of mine.”
Lefevre finished dead last, but that was no bother for a two-time Olympian who never figured on being here.
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