History-making Ledecka becomes first person to claim ski-snowboard double gold
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Ester Ledecka has incredibly become the first person in Winter Olympic history to win gold medals in both skiing and snowboarding, winning the snowboard parallel giant slalom on Saturday to go with her Alpine skiing super-G gold.
The Czech is only the fifth person to win gold in two different events at the Winter Olympics.
Ledecka defeated Germany's Selina Joerg in the final by 0.46 seconds to claim the gold.
Ledecka dominated from the outset, setting the fastest time in qualifying and handling the pressure to win a historic double gold in Pyeongchang.
The two-time world champion's achievement is the first athlete to win golds in two unrelated disciplines — the four others to win two different events competed in similar Nordic events.
While Ledecka was highly fancied to take out gold in this snowboard event, it was her performance with the skis the caught everyone — including herself — off guard.
"I was wondering what just happened. Is this a kind of mistake?" she said after winning the super-G final last Sunday.
"I was thinking OK they're going to change the time, I'm going to wait for a little bit and they're going to switch and put some seconds on.
"I was just staring at the board and nothing was happening and everybody was screaming. I just started to think OK, this is weird."
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