From a coma to the medals stand
American freestyle skier Colby Stevenson won a surprise silver medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday, pulling off a switch left 1800—five full rotations—on his final run in the big air competition. It was an unlikely result for the 24-year-old, who spent three days in an induced coma after a near-fatal car crash in rural Idaho in 2016, and is normally considered more of a slopestyle specialist. “I’m totally on a cloud,” he said, according to. “It hasn’t quite set in yet.
It’s a miracle I ended up on the podium today honestly.” Stevenson’s teammate Alex Hall, considered a gold-medal chance, missed a grab on the first run and decided to go for a 2160—a super-hard trick involving six full rotations that he used to win gold at the X Games last month—but could not land it cleanly and found himself eliminated.
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U.S. skier Colby Stevenson, survivor of 2016 near-fatal car crash, soars to Olympic silver'I'm still using that [crash] as a life lesson to just live and enjoy every moment,' Stevenson told People Magazine.
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U.S. skier Colby Stevenson, survivor of 2016 near-fatal car crash, soars to Olympic silver'I'm still using that [crash] as a life lesson to just live and enjoy every moment,' Stevenson told People Magazine.
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