Alex Hall and Nick Goepper claim US 1-2 in men’s freeski slopestyle

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Alex Hall and Nick Goepper claim US 1-2 in men’s freeski slopestyle

  • Jesper Tjäder claims bronze medal for Sweden
  • Team USA’s Colby Stevenson finishes seventh

It wasn’t the clean sweep of eight years ago, but a pair of Americans topped the men’s freeski slopestyle podium on Wednesday morning after Alex Hall soared to Olympic gold ahead of team-mate Nick Goepper, who took the silver.

Sweden’s Jesper Tjader won the bronze ahead of Andri Ragettli, the defending world champion from Switzerland who qualified in first place but settled for fourth on another bitterly cold morning in the mountains roughly 120km northwest of Beijing.

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