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Braaten is 1st, Kenworthy last in Olympic slopestyle
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Gus Kenworthy's Olympics turned into Oystein Braaten's party.
Braaten, the 22-year-old from Norway, captured the gold medal in ski slopestyle Sunday, far outdistancing the dinged-up Kenworthy, who failed to land any of his three runs and came in last.
Braaten, who learned the sport by setting up rails and jumps in his backyard, edged out American Nick Goepper, who added a silver medal to the bronze he won four years ago in Sochi.
Alex Beaulieu-Marchand of Canada took this year's bronze.
But the loudest cheers on this sunny day at the action park were for Kenworthy, the 26-year-old from Colorado who came out as gay about two years after capturing the silver medal in Russia. He has since become a strong, steady voice in the LGBT community, and has used the Pyeongchang Games to amplify his message .
With family and boyfriend Matt Wilkas watching and a number of rainbow gay-pride flags waving in the crowd, Kenworthy bobbled all three runs in the finals. After the last one, he shrugged, shook his head and said "It's OK," to the TV cameras before walking off the course.
It has been a whirlwind of a week for Kenworthy, who broke his thumb in training earlier in the week and had to have several milliliters of blood drained from his hip — injuries he detailed to his growing number of followers on social media .
"I know he's happy to have just been here and to have made it into the finals," Wilkas said. "It's amazing. He was injured going into this. It limited his competition. He did great in qualification. Maybe he was just too injured to follow through in this. I don't know."
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