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Jamie Anderson Repeats, Winning Olympic Gold In Slopestyle

Strong winds forced a change: instead of snowboarders getting three runs to net a best score, they got just two tries. Jamie Anderson needed only one — and, she said, "my lion power."
Gold medalist Jamie Anderson of the United States celebrates during the victory ceremony for the snowboard slopestyle, at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.

U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson won the women's snowboard slopestyle competition at the Winter Olympics in South Korea on Monday, successfully defending the gold medal she won at the Sochi Olympics in 2014.

Anderson won after high winds delayed the competition at Phoenix Snow Park — and the conditions almost wrecked her medal-winning performance.

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