Jamie Anderson Fails to Qualify for Massive Air Ultimate

Placing a quiet finish to a tough Winter Olympics, Jamie Anderson of the US didn’t advance to the ladies’s massive air snowboarding remaining on Monday, a disappointing end after she earned a silver medal within the occasion’s debut on the 2018 Winter Video games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Anderson, 31, fell throughout her first two runs earlier than touchdown her third: a entrance double 1080. However massive air combines the most effective two scores out of a snowboarder’s three makes an attempt to supply a remaining rating, and Anderson’s efficiency was solely adequate to place her in twelfth place, briefly.

Quickly she was bumped all the way down to fifteenth place and out of competition for the 12-woman remaining, which is scheduled for Tuesday at Shougang Park in Beijing.

“Actually heartbroken,” Anderson stated. “Such a excessive excessive if you do effectively right here, and the worst low when you possibly can’t pull it collectively.”

Anderson is a two-time gold medalist in slopestyle who earned a silver medal within the 2018 Olympic debut of huge air. At these Olympics, although, earlier than stumbling in massive air, she completed ninth in slopestyle.

“I simply straight up couldn’t deal with the stress,” she wrote on Instagram after the slopestyle remaining. “Had an emotional break down the night time earlier than finals and my psychological well being and readability simply hasn’t been on par. Trying ahead to a while off and self care.”

She is one of several high-profile athletes who have expressed vulnerability over the toll that expectations and coaching can take. Within the days between her slopestyle disappointment and large air, Anderson posted a photograph of herself smiling on Instagram.

“Olympic reset!” she wrote.

Zoi Sadowski Synnott of New Zealand, who gained the gold medal in slopestyle this yr, had the very best qualifying rating in massive air. The slopestyle silver medalist Julia Marino of the US didn’t compete within the occasion due to an harm sustained throughout coaching.

Hailey Langland, who completed twelfth within the massive air qualifying spherical, was the one one of many 4 People competing to advance to the ultimate. Marin Hamill of the US, who was in seventh place on the power of her first qualifying run, was injured in a crash throughout her second run. She sustained a leg harm and might be flown again to the US for analysis, the U.S. group stated.

Requested if she would retire, Anderson, who lives close to Lake Tahoe in California, stated she didn’t know. “A part of me simply needs to stop,” she stated. “A part of me needs to go work tougher and are available again and win all the pieces as a result of I do know I’m succesful. However it’s been an extended journey for me. I’ll undoubtedly simply take some time and go freeride with some friends after which reset and see what I really feel.”