The weather didn’t let up, but neither did David Wise.
On Tuesday, the 23-year-old American double-corked his way to the first-ever Olympic gold medal in halfpipe skiing as hundreds of flag-bearing spectators looked on. Close behind Wise, Canadian Mike Riddle earned silver as Frenchman Kevin Rolland rounded out the podium with the bronze on the historic evening in Sochi, Russia.
Blinding snow made it difficult to see the top of the pipe, much less jump out of it, but 12 competitors from five different nations didn’t let that slow their sport’s debut … More
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