COX GIVES IT ALL BUT FALLS SHORT
FOR a small moment things seemed like they would work out for Britt Cox at the Winter Olympic Games.
Not in the kind of form that saw her win seven World Cups and a world championship the previous season, the moguls skier took to her final run at Bokwang Phoenix Park with the speed and aggression that had seemingly been missing in recent weeks.
A mistake on the top jump saw her finish fifth.
Gold was taken by France’s Perrine Laffont (78.65 points) with Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Canada (78.56) second and Kazakhstan’s Yulia Galysheva (77.40) winning bronze.
Cox was also edged out by teammate Jakara Anthony (75.35), who has only made one other final in her threeseason World Cup career but skied superbly to finish fourth.
After skiing well in the penultimate final to qualify second for the six-woman decider, Cox came in a little hot on the first jump, losing control of her 360-degree rotation. She recovered well but not well enough.
“My goal for this entire week and for tonight in particular was to go for it,” she said.
“I skied fast, I jumped big and for that I am super proud.”
For Anthony, it was her best performance on the biggest stage.
“I’m super excited about that,” she said.
“It was the result I’d been hoping for all season and to achieve it at the Olympics is really special.”
Madii Himbury was 20th while Claudia Gueli was 23rd.