Anna Gasser knew she needed something special on her last run to win the Beijing Games Big Air event on Tuesday and the Austrian did just that, landing one of the hardest tricks in women's snowboarding to pip New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott for gold.
It was a case of deja vu for Gasser, who also had to pull something big out of the bag in Pyeongchang four years ago to win the event on its Olympic debut.
Her combined score of 177.00 was good enough for silver ahead of Japan’s Kokomo Murase, who scored a combined 171.50 to take bronze in her first Olympics.
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