Zoi Sadowski-Synnott wins silver in the snowboarding big air, while Australia's Tess Coady starts strongly but slips to ninth.
New Zealand's Sydney-born Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has narrowly missed out on a second gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.Zoi Sadowski-Synnott had a lead after two runs, but was blown away by Anna Gasser's final runIt's Sadowski-Synnott's second medal in Beijing and third in her Olympic career
Anna Gasser of Austria executed a massive cab 1260 on her final jump to overtake Sadowski-Synnott and win her second straight Olympic gold medal in women's snowboarding big air. Gasser, 30, held off a field with an average age of 21, including the 20-year-old Sadowski-Synnott, who last week won her country's first Winter Olympics gold medal in slopestyle.
Australia's Tess Coady, who won bronze in the slopestyle, finished ninth, despite a strong first run of 85.00.Sadowski-Synnott led Gasser by 0.25 points entering the third round after both landed a pair of double cork 1080s — two off-axis flips with three rotations.Gasser was assured of silver when she dropped in switch for her final attempt at Big Air Shougang.
She was the first woman to land a cab double cork 1260 in competition when she did it 2019, and she did it again here, the only rider to stomp out a trick with three-and-a-half spins.With her big air bronze from 2018, Sadowski-Synnott became the seventh snowboarder with three Olympic medals, a list that includes Shaun White and Jamie Anderson.
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