The 21-year-old Gremaud started the medal decision on Tuesday (February 15, 2022) with “restrained foam”. Genting Snow Park gone by Zhangjiakou, she had only survived the qualification in twelfth place with a lot of luck. Decisive for the victory of the athlete, who is known as a daredevil, in the freezing cold was a solid and, above all, technically extremely clean second place. run. She received 86.56 points for her tricks on the three rails and three kickers.
Silver for Superstar Gu
That was enough to maintain a razor-thin lead over Eileen Ailing Gu and gild her silver from Pyeongchang. After Gu’s triumph in the Big Air competition, the hosts’ eyes were on China’s superstar. But after a fall in the second round, the daughter of an American and a Chinese was not in the medal ranks. In the third run she was under pressure, but showed a rather restrained performance. To their own surprise, the jurors still gave high marks. 86.23 points meant silver ahead of Olympic debutant Kelly Sildaru (82.06), who secured Estonia’s first Winter Olympic medal outside of cross-country skiing competitions. Gu starts in the halfpipe on Thursday.