Two-sport athlete Ester Ledecka surprise gold medalist in her second-best sport

“We don’t stand for you”, wrote another. Her mother Zuzana was a successful figure skater at national level, while her grandfather, Jan Kaplac, was a member of the great Czechoslovakian ice hockey team that won world championship gold in 1972 and Olympic bronze at Innsbruck 1964 and silver at Grenoble 1968. She had a big slip late in the race. She told NBC before the race that this was a “disadvantage”. She missed the Sochi Games after aggravating a serious knee injury. If she sticks to the original plan to compete in the parallel giant slalom, which begins Thursday, she will become the first person to compete in both skiing and snowboarding at the Olympics.

“This must be some mistake”, Ledecka said when asked what her first thoughts were when she realized she had taken over the leaderboard. She couldn’t believe it.

“How did that happen?”

It’s possible that Ledecka was even more shocked with the result than viewers at home.

“The track was in ideal conditions, sunny top to bottom and I couldn’t have asked for better conditions for my first Olympic race here”, Small said.

Then came this: “OK, they’re going to change the time”.

Reports spread that Shiffrin, for reasons not yet known, allowed Ledecka to use her skis, and Ledecka used them to ski right to the top of the podium. “It’s down the hill”. Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather took ronze.

“She’s not a medal favorite”.

The winning time: 1:21.11.

Lindsey Vonn admitted on Sunday she was “hurt” by accusations she is anti-American after the U.S. ski star’s outspoken stance against U.S. President Donald Trump.

The race proved exceptionally tight: only 11-hundredths of a second separated first from third.

On Friday night, Vonn said on her Twitter account: “I will give it everything I have with no regrets”. I Have no regrets. “It’s unbelievable, I can’t describe this feeling right now inside me”, said Stoch. “I am happy for her and I am kind of surprised”. “I am not upset. So it was, “Come on, let’s do the best run you can, skier”. “That’s what I did”.

In 2006, at the Games in Torino, she crashed in downhill training.

Through it all, she managed to keep racing when she could, accruing a record 81 world cup victories across her career – 28 of them (or 34.5%) in super-G.

She won three World Cup downhills in a row before heading to South Korea. “She is multi-talented. I followed her, and thought it was a matter of time before she’d end up further in the front”. To this day, the thumb does not straighten properly. “At the Olympics, a lot of weird stuff happens”. “It’s unfortunate because I’m ranked 10th in super-G and I had no choice in my starting number”. She also has won five season titles in Super-G.

The skier is set to go in downhill event on Tuesday. He did just that – going on to win with a final-run score of 87.16.

The other racers were able to watch – and learn – from Lindsey. The mistake was enough to keep her out of medal contention. “This was the Olympics”, she said speaking afterwards.

Julie Foudy, the former captain of the USA women’s national soccer team, noticed the tweets online and called out the social media users for criticizing the skier due to her political opinions.

“I’m from Minnesota, from farmland, my family are solid, wholesome people and I love my country and I love competing for my country”. But I’m here. I’m healthy. “I ski better when there is no wind and I struggle with the wind”.