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Bryan Armen Graham in Beijing

Alex Hall and Nick Goepper claim US 1-2 in men’s freeski slopestyle

(Left to right): Nick Goepper, Alex Hall and Jesper Tjader celebrate their medals at the Winter Olympics.
(Left to right): Nick Goepper, Alex Hall and Jesper Tjader celebrate their medals at the Winter Olympics. Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images

It wasn’t the clean sweep of eight years ago, but a pair of Americans topped the men’s freeski slopestyle podium on Wednesday morning after Alex Hall soared to Olympic gold ahead of teammate Nick Goepper, who took the silver.

Sweden’s Jesper Tjader won the bronze ahead of Andri Ragettli, the defending world champion from Switzerland who qualified in first place but ended up in fourth on another bitterly cold morning in the mountains roughly 120km northwest of Beijing.

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