BREAKING | Jakara Anthony has won Australia’s first gold medal of the 2022 Winter Games, storming through the field in the women’s moguls to become an Olympic champion. WinterOlympics
Anthony qualified first for the final and never let go, capping off a dominant display under lights in Zhangjiakou, 200 kilometres outside Beijing.Her score of 83.09 took her past American Jaelin Kauf on the final run. The 23-year-old did it in a time of 27 seconds, with a 720 grab on the first jump and a backflip on the second. The girl from Barwon Heads carved up her first and second journey’s down the icy incline – finishing her first run in 27.
Others did not make it. Canada’s Justine Dufour-Laponte wept as she made her way down the mountain. Left stranded without a pole after tripping and crashing into a mogul, she waited until one could be retrieved, determined to finish a run that she had spent four long years preparing for.Anthony’s two-decade journey to Olympic gold took her from Queensland to Mt Buller in Victoria as a four-year-old, before joining the skiing club in Perisher in NSW.
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