Snowboarder Ester Ledecka turned the world of alpine skiing on its head by winning Olympic gold in the super-G -- and yet the Czech is not even the most famous member of her family.
Austrian Marcel Hirscher goes for his second gold of the Pyeongchang Games in the men's alpine skiing while French army officer Martin Fourcade is seeking his second in biathlon.
We’ll be following along with the men’s freestyle skiing slopestyle competition as well as the Alpine skiing giant slalom competition on Saturday.
And U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin helped.
Ester Ledecka didn’t believe it.
“Is this a kind of mistake?”
After all, the 22-year-old from the Czech Republic didn’t even own the skis she was on.
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Snowboard star Ester Ledecka turned the world of alpine skiing on its head Saturday when she claimed an astonishing gold in the Olympic super-G.
PYEONGCHANG – Czech snowboarder Ester Ledecka produced one of the biggest shocks in the history of the Winter Olympics when she tore down Jeongseon slope in bib number 26 to win the women’s Alpine skiing super-G on Saturday.
Mikaela Shiffrin won’t compete in the Alpine, but you can still enjoy Adam Rippon’s figure skating on NBC.
