Gu shakes off crash to claim slopestyle ski event

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• and third-place Lara Wolf of Austria."I'm OK," Gu said.
• "I don't really like taking a victory lap, so I wanted to just do something to keep pushing and show my best out here.
• But that's the sport, sometimes you fall, so it's OK."Slopestyle is the only event where Gu fell short of gold at the Beijing Games four years ago, and she will enter the Milan Cortina Winter Games next month as the favorite to add it to her Olympic medals collection.
• She claimed gold in halfpipe and big air -- in addition to her silver in slopestyle -- in 2022. The American-born star who competes for China went last in the lineup thanks to her leading qualifying score.
• She didn't need to land the second run after nobody surpassed the 85.13 she earned over her flawless opening trip through the course's rails and jumps. Home favorite Mathilde Gremaud, the Swiss skier who edged Gu for gold in 2022, finished seventh. Gu, 22, earned her record-extending 20th World Cup career victory and her fourth in slopestyle."That's so special.