Still happy
Created: 2022-02-06 22:31
By: Patrick Hilmes
No precious metal?
It doesn't matter!
Nevertheless, Annika Morgan wrote German snowboarding history with eighth place in the Olympic slopestyle final.
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There was no sensation: Annika Morgan missed a medal in slopestyle.
But there is no sign of disappointment, because the 19-year-old from Mittenwald once again wrote German snowboard history with her entry into the final.
Beijing –
competition in sport is omnipresent.
But those who watched the final decision in the women's snowboard slopestyle on the night from Saturday to Sunday saw nothing of it.
Not a trace of resentment, not a trace of disappointment that it didn't go gold, silver or bronze.
The girls were all happy together, even though the Olympic medal was at stake.
When the last starter stamped her run in the snow and the jury announced the decision, almost all athletes made winner Zoi Sadowski Synnott from New Zealand disappear in a group.
They jumped, shrieked and cheered together - as if they had all won gold.
Morgan gets good eighth
Including Annika Morgan.
Although the Mittenwald native missed out on the sensation, she once again wrote German snowboard history with her entry into the final.
After all, there has never been a German athlete in the Olympic final of this discipline.
In this Morgan was a good eighth.
First overslept, then nervous after my brother called
Each starter had three runs, and the best was counted.
Morgan was strong straight away and found himself fifth after the first round.
Her day had already gotten off to an exciting start.
"I overslept badly," she admitted.
In addition, Morgan had initially opted for the safety variant, renounced her backside 1080 on the final jump and showed the 900 variant.
In her two following runs, she wanted to go one better, and previously received a Facetime call from her brother Sean, an ice hockey player in Rostock.
He told her, "If you land that, you might get a medal."
Next chance in the Big Air
But the 19-year-old got nervous, in the second run she just avoided a fall, in the third she landed on the seat of her pants.
An improvement was no longer possible.
But that in no way dampened her mood.
"I'm so happy, I can't complain at all.
It was so much fun, I would like to continue.” She continues on February 14 with the qualification in the Big Air. The final is scheduled for the following day.