La Plagnarde Tess Ledeux will have to settle for the silver medal. The Frenchwoman’s double cork 1620 was not enough to snag the gold Olympic. She fails 0.75 points from the title. It was the 18-year-old American-Chinese Ailing Gu who finally won by taking all the risks to pass in front of the Habs. At only 20 years old, the Savoyard woman is still writing history by climbing the first big air olympic podium (big air skiing, which consists of jumping off a giant springboard to perform acrobatic figures, it is present for the first time on the Olympic program)
New chance in slopestyle
The Savoyard has yet to compete in the slopestyle event at the Beijing Games, this time at the mountain site of Zhangjiakou, where she will also be one of the main contenders for the Olympic podium. Tess Ledeux, who had the pain of losing her father a year ago, was crowned slopestyle world champion in 2017, at the age of 15, and big air in 2019. A medal with a bitter taste, but a medal all the same goes for the acrobatic skier from Bourg-Saint-Maurice. It’s here 4th medal for the Blues in Beijingagain in silver.