Slopestyle final
LIVE: Gold and silver likely out of reach for Wolf
Lara Wolf clearly missed out on a medal in her first Olympic freeski final. On Monday, the Tyrolean finished ninth in the slopestyle event at the Livigno Snow Park with 56.60 points, almost 20 points behind third place.
The gold medal was contested between China's Eileen Gu and Switzerland's Mathilde Gremaud, with Gremaud winning by 0.38 points, repeating her success from Beijing 2022. Bronze went to Canada's Megan Oldham.
Fall on the first rail
Wolf started with a safe run (52.83 points) and ranked sixth. In the second run, the 25-year-old managed a slight improvement (56.60), but she missed out on a better score due to sloppy rail passages in the upper section. From seventh place, her attempt to secure a medal in the third run failed completely. After a fall on the first rail, the 2025 vice world champion had to give up her hopes early on. Wolf fell back two places and finished ninth, as she had in the qualification round.
"That never happens to me"
"I wanted to step it up a notch in the last run, but unfortunately I fell on the first rail, which never happens to me. It doesn't feel so good right now," explained the Tyrolean, who still has a second chance in the big air. "It's important for me to put this behind me. The big air qualifiers are on Saturday. My chances are good, I know what I can do, I have some really good tricks," said Wolf, who ended her career in 2023, decided to make a comeback, and has now achieved a major goal by reaching the final.
Big Air second chance for Wolf
She wants to follow up on this in BigAir, and the experience she gained in Slopestyle should help her do so. "I'm focusing on a new goal, which is to continue writing my story. It's good that I've competed in a final once, that I know how it feels. It's incredibly big to compete in an Olympic final, there are a lot of emotions," explained Wolf.
Gremaud, who is in a relationship with Austrian mountain bike downhill rider Valentina Höll, and Gu battled it out for gold in a league of their own. The 22-year-old Gu, double Olympic champion in Beijing in halfpipe and big air, took the lead with 86.59 points. In the second run, double world champion and defending champion Gremaud struck back and took the lead with 86.96 points, 0.38 ahead of Gu. China's top star was unable to counter, and Gremaud celebrated her second Olympic gold medal one day after her 26th birthday.
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