“I still can’t believe it,” beams Anna Gasser into the camera. A few moments earlier, the Carinthian had been crowned double Olympic champion in Beijing. With her last jump on Tuesday, our snowboard queen celebrated her triumph in the Big Air: “It’s just amazing!”
“I really didn’t expect it today,” says Anna Gasser in an ORF interview. With 185.50 points, 30-year-old Zoi Sadowski Synnott (177.00) from New Zealand and Japan’s Kokomo Murase (171.50) relegated them to second place. Gasser showed no nerves at all in the final: “I wasn’t that nervous at all. I would have been happy with second or third place too!” “I’m just overjoyed” With a Cab Double Cork 1200 on the last attempt, Gasser overtook top favorite Sadowski Synnott. “It went so well, I trained so hard for the last jump. I’m just overjoyed,” smiles Anna.
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