Eileen Gu beaten for first time in three years as Amy Fraser wins Mammoth Mountain halfpipe gold
BySportsbeat
Updated 03/02/2024 at 13:30 GMT
Persistent wind and blowing snow at Mammoth Mountain meant the qualifying results in the freeski halfpipe stood as the final results for the World Cup competition. That meant victory for Canada's Amy Fraser and the end of superstar Gu's long unblemished record. Fraser, 28, continues to enjoy a breakout season having finished third at last weekend's X Games.
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Only bad weather could end Eileen Gu's three-year unbeaten streak.
Persistent wind and blowing snow at Mammoth Mountain meant the qualifying results in the freeski halfpipe stood as the final results for the World Cup competition.
That meant victory for Canada's Amy Fraser and the end of superstar Gu's long unblemished record.
Fraser, 28, continues to enjoy a breakout season having finished third at last weekend's X Games and scored 85.50 to claim her first-ever World Cup victory.
"I'm super stoked. I'll take the win for sure, even if it doesn't feel like a true, true win," said Fraser.
Gu still scored 83.50 to make it 12 successive appearances on the podium, joined there by Great Britain's Zoe Atkin in bronze medal position.
There was a US clean sweep of the podium on the men's side, led by the brilliant Alex Ferreira.
Ferreira has enjoyed a perfect season, this his third successive World Cup win coming on the back of an X Games triumph.
His winning score of 87.00 was only narrowly missed by Hunter Hess with 86.50, three-time Olympic slopestyle medallist Nick Goepper snaged bronze.
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