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Canadian moguls star Mikael Kingsbury settles for Olympic silver after tiebreaker
Cooper Woods won gold after tying with Mikael Kingsbury at 83.71 points, prevailing with a higher turns score that accounts for 60% of the moguls total.
- In Livigno, Italy on Thursday, Mikael Kingsbury of Canada and Cooper Woods of Australia tied at 83.71, with the gold decided by a tiebreaker.
- Moguls tiebreakers use the turns score, which makes up 60% of a run while jumps and speed share 20% each, and the turns margin decided the result.
- Also notable in the final were Ikuma Horishima of Japan repeating as bronze medalist from four years ago and Julien Viel of Canada finishing sixth.
- It is Kingsbury's fourth career Olympic medal, totaling three silver and one gold, while Canada now has five medals—two silver, three bronze—at these Olympics.
- Kingsbury's stature as the sport's dominant skier contrasts with Cooper Woods, 25-year-old Australian who secured gold after one podium in 51 World Cup events, in a rare upset Thursday.
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Aussie takes gold in moguls tiebreaker
Australian freestyle skier Cooper Woods snatched the gold medal away from the sport's most decorated skier, Mikael Kingsbury of Canada, after both scored 83.71 points in Thursday's men's moguls final. The tiebreaker in moguls is the "turns" score, a mark…
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