Jakara Anthony has made history by winning Australia’s first gold medal in the women’s moguls at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Anthony has become just the sixth Aussie to win the greatest prize in winter sports after her historic victory in the women’s moguls in Beijing late on Sunday night.
With ice in her veins, she almost made it look easy as she led after every round but that was misleading because moguls is one of the hardest and most unforgiving skiing events in extreme winter sports. The margin for error is ludicrously small with tiny slips resulting in skiers face-planting in the snow.
)L to R) Silver medallist USA's Jaelin Kauf, gold medallist Australia's Jakara Anthony and bronze medallist Russia's Anastasiia Smirnova on the podium after the freestyle skiing women's moguls final. Picture: AFP But all the plaudits rightly went to Anthony, the 23-year-old who hails from the sleepy Victorian coastal town of Barwon Heads.A natural who started skiing when she was just four, Anthony has been earmarked for greatness from a young age, rapidly going through the junior representative ranks then onto the world stage.
At the highest level, there’s not much between the best in the world, with a handful of talented women all capable of winning on their day.It is called a Cork 720 mute - a full flip with two rotations and a grab of her skis in mid-air - and is so outrageous that hardly anyone else in the world will even attempt it but it’s what helped her get the gold and become a legend.Another Australian Winter Olympian has fallen victim to China’s Covid-19 clampdown.
Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt — Australia’s first curlers to qualify for the Olympics — may not have won a medal in China but they still manufactured the feelgood story of the Games. That meant they had to forfeit their last two games, against Switzerland and Canada, and Gill would have to relocate to a Covid isolation facility.
Instead, he’s competing for Australia, in the same short track event that Steven Bradbury famously won gold in two decades ago. Dale Begg-Smith left the Great White North when he was a teenager and moved to the Snowy Mountains, then won gold in moguls at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.“My mother’s father is a gold miner,” Corey told News Corp. “He helped develop the Plutonic mine, which is one of the largest mines in Western Australia.
Coincidentally, Corey did most of his training for Beijing in Salt Lake City, the Utah capital where Bradbury won Australia’s first Winter Olympic gold in 2002 after all his opponents in the final fell over.“He just wanted to reach out to personally congratulate me and say that he’s very proud of all the hard work and commitment I’ve shown,’ Corey said.
A chance meeting with Australian coach Richard Nizielski, who teamed up with Bradbury to win Olympic bronze in 1994, convinced Corey that his future was in green and gold so he jumped at the chance.“This year was my first year on the World Cup so I went in with an underdog mentality and no pressure, and I think that helped me to achieve what I have this season.
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