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China Daily | Updated: 2022-02-20 10:06
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Porteous prevails in sub-30 conditions to win halfpipe

The gold medalist, Nico Porteous, had blood caked to his ear. The silver medalist, David Wise, was tired-as much from skiing as from running halfway up the Olympic halfpipe to check on a teammate after a nasty fall.

"In our sport, especially on a day like today, it's anyone's game," said Porteous.

One of bronze medalist Alex Ferreira's biggest takeaways on a day made for hand warmers, hot chocolates and warm fires: "I mean, I'm alive."

Mother Nature saved the worst for last on Saturday-the final day of flips and spins at the Olympic park. With wind chills dipping to -32 C, and with snow pellets and clouds sporadically infiltrating the halfpipe itself, the day of the men's halfpipe final was a day for die-hards only.

"Pretty gnarly," said Gus Kenworthy, the 2014 silver medalist, who finished eighth.

The medalists-Porteous of New Zealand and Wise and Ferreira of the United States-were the same three, ordered differently, who landed on the podium four years ago at the Pyeongchang Games.

Their victories this time were a testament to their experience. Also, a show of sheer guts. It was hard, frankly, to call anyone a runner-up in this one, especially because everyone skied off in one piece. It was a contest, some skiers suggested, that would have been called off had it not been put at the tailend of the Olympic schedule, with no backup days available.

"My goal was to get the gold," Ferreira said. "But being on the podium in such tough conditions, I honestly feel like I got the gold."

All three medal runs came on the skiers' first trips down the halfpipe, while the adrenaline was still pumping and before the permafrost took hold.

In all, the 12 finalists took three runs each down the frozen expanse. Of their 36 total runs, only 18 were completed without a fall.

Kenworthy took one of the grizzliest hits.

Blown practically out of the halfpipe early in his second run, his back slammed hard into the deck and he went ricocheting down to the bottom of the pipe. He came back 30 minutes later and landed a full run-the last run of his career.

"Even when the wind wasn't blowing people onto the deck, it was really killing amplitude," said Kenworthy, an American who competed for his mother's home country of Britain. "The guys who are in the top three, they still had incredible runs, but those were not the runs they wanted to do."

Wise admitted as much.

"I had so much prepared," he said. "It's like I cooked a meal for everybody and I didn't get to share it."

And so, the skier who had set the standard for this sport over the previous two Olympic cycles added a silver medal to his collection.

Wise famously won his gold in the Republic of Korea after ratcheting his bindings so tightly that there was practically no way his skis would release if they got twisted in a fall. In China, he took a tumble on his second run and part of his binding snapped off.

"When it's cold, and I'm 195 pounds (88 kilograms)... I'm a little bit harder on my equipment," Wise said.

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