U.S. wins first medal of 2022 Olympics with snowboarder Julia Marino's slopestyle silver

Snowboarder Julia Marino netted the United States its first medal of the 2022 Beijing Olympics after earning the silver in women’s slopestyle snowboarding Sunday. Event favorite Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand took the gold â€" the country"s first in a winter Olympics â€" with a score of 92.88 on her final run. Sadowski-Synnott, 20, beat out two-time Olympic gold medalist Jamie Anderson for gold at the X Games last month in Aspen, Colorado. Australian Tess Coady, 21, took bronze in her Olympic debut. Marino, 24, placed sixth in qualifying for the final, but stunned with her second run, which scored her an 87.68, enough to cement her standing on the podium after a fall in her third run. Marino, of Westport, Connecticut, has been a mainstay in the sport without much Olympic validation until Sunday. She won gold at the 2017 X Games slopestyle event in Aspen, Colorado, beating Anderson, who was a favorite for the Americans in Sunday"s event.


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