Whistler’s Ashleigh McIvor wins Olympic Gold in Women’s Ski Cross
WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. — Ashleigh McIvor didn’t let the blowing snow slow her down or the tumbling skiers trip her up. It was the perfect formula for ski cross and good enough to put another gold medal in Canada’s column at the Vancouver Olympics.
Persevering through a typical day of spills and thrills in ski cross, made more hectic by a heavy snowstorm that hit halfway through the event, McIvor found all the right routes down the course Tuesday to help Canada take its sixth gold medal of the Games.
“I’m so thrilled, this is best moment of my entire life,” said a beaming McIvor in the finish area after the race. “I’ve worked so hard for this and it’s so awesome to be able to represent my hometown, my home province my home country on the world stage.”
Despite the country’s struggles at these Olympics, that’s just one fewer gold than leaders Germany and United States as of Tuesday afternoon.
Hedda Berntsen of Norway came in a distant second, and Marion Josserand of France took the bronze.
Canadian Kelsey Serwa won the consolation final to take fifth, with Julia Murray 12th and Danielle Poleschuk 19th.
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