Freestyle skier Jon Sallinen’s first run in Olympic halfpipe qualifying wasn’t picture perfect
Coming out of the pipe like that — and landing on the deck — doesn’t happen that often on this level.
Ben Harrington of New Zealand had a frightening spill, too — one that left him motionless for a moment as he lay at the bottom of the halfpipe. His teammate, Nico Porteous, was making his rounds of post-qualifying interviews when he suddenly realized Harrington had crashed. Porteous jumped over barriers to run out to the halfpipe and check on Harrington.
An 18-year-old member of the U.S. ski team, Connor Ladd, suffered a head injury in a training accident before a contest in December. A message on his Instagram account said he's got a long journey ahead.He was released from Craig Hospital in Denver on Christmas.
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