{"id":14702,"date":"2018-02-17T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/nick-goepper-wins-silver-in-slopestyle-gus-kenworthy-places-12th\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T06:36:00","slug":"nick-goepper-wins-silver-in-slopestyle-gus-kenworthy-places-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/nick-goepper-wins-silver-in-slopestyle-gus-kenworthy-places-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Goepper Wins Silver In Slopestyle, Gus Kenworthy Places 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Nick Goepper won a silver medal for the United States in the freestyle skiing men’s ski slopestyle.<\/p>\n

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Gus Kenworthy<\/a> and Nick Goepper<\/a> were two of three American athletes on the slopestyle skiing podium four years ago in the Sochi Winter Games. Slopestyle, an event in which skiers perform a variety of tricks and jumps down a mixed-terrain course, made its debut as an Olympic game there.<\/p>\n

Goepper gave another solid performance in Pyeongchang. After two shakey runs, Goepper earned a 93.60 and managed to reach the podium, winning silver. Kenworthy, who posted an Instagram video of a hematoma<\/a> on his hip after falling on Friday, placed 12th. The field started with 30 skiers.<\/p>\n

Goepper was joined at the podium by Norway’s Oystein Braaten, who won gold, and Canada’s Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, who took bronze.<\/p>\n

Kenworthy, a 26-year-old British-born athlete from Telluride, Colo., who has also competed in the halfpipe, won silver in the 2014 slopestyle. <\/p>\n

He is one of two openly gay men \u2014 the other is Adam Rippon<\/a> \u2014 representing the United States at Pyeongchang. “I am more open with everyone in my life, and I think it just translates into me being able to ski a little bit more freely and not have so much to focus on and worry about,” the athlete told Reuters<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

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Days before the slopestyle event, Kenworthy broke his right thumb during practice. He quipped that the injury excused him from shaking Vice President Pence’s hand. The vice president led the U.S. delegation<\/a> and visited Pyeongchang the previous weekend.<\/p>\n