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Gremaud said Gu and bronze medalist Megan Oldham of Canada — who scored 76.46 in her final run to beat Britain’s Kirsty Muir to bronze by 0.41 of a point — had brought the best out of her. Gu — favorite in the big air and halfpipe events later in these Olympics — said Gremaud had “come out swinging” in the second run.
The Olympic slopestyle war between Mathilde Gremaud and Eileen Gu rages on. The Swiss skier successfully defended her gold in the women’s slopestyle final on Monday morning and held off the Gu, who was born in America but competes for China,
"Just because it seems impossible to you doesn't mean it's not possible," Vonn says.
Lindsey Vonn completed another successful downhill training run at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Saturday after tearing the ACL in her left knee last week
Mathilde Gremaud edged Eileen Gu to claim another Olympic slopestyle gold. Both competitors raised the standard of women's free ski.
Despite more than an hour delay for fog, Lindsey Vonn cleared a major hurdle before Sunday’s Olympic women’s downhill with a successful training run in Cortina on Friday, exactly one week after she tore the ACL in her left knee and was airlifted off a mountain in Switzerland.
The most-watched knee at the 2026 Olympics survived its first big test Friday. Lindsey Vonn got through her first training run without incident after completely rupturing her left ACL during a World Cup race last week in Switzerland.