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Both of these medals were coming from the Slopestyle competition. A U.S. man and a U.S. woman both won gold in their respective Slopestyle events.
The man is Sage Kotsenberg, who reigns from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was the first medalist for the Americans. He has participated in this event in prior years at the X Games and even won Silver medals there but never in the Olympics. Kotsenburg actually won this event off of a trick he had never done before and another trick that he invented himself.
Kotsenburg said, “I winged it.” when he was asked about how he performed that trick.
Jamie Anderson is his female counterpart on the U.S. team, although she has a ittle more experience. Anderson has medaled in the X Games Slopestyle nearly every year since 2006. This year at Sochi she took the Gold medal in this inaugural Slopestyle event.
In other Snowboarding news, Freestyle favorite and multi-Gold medal holder Shaun White failed to medal. This came as a huge shock because he got beat due to the fact that he failed to land multiple tricks of his.
This is one of the toughest parts about Snowboarding, when you fail you cannot blame anyone but yourself because it is a single person sport.
There are still several snowboarding events left in the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games, in fact they do not end until Feb. 22. Stayed tuned every Wednesday and Friday at uhsecho.com to read more stories, written by myself and partner Carter Huff, about the Olympic events.
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