Livigno, Italy ¨C In what was widely billed as a showdown between Canadian Mikael Kingsbury and Japan¡¯s Ikuma Horishima, it was Australia¡¯s Cooper Woods who emerged from an epic men¡¯s mogul final with Olympic gold at Livigno Aerials and Mogul Park on Thursday.
Kingsbury, the penultimate skier on the day, surged past Horishima with a clean final run score of 83.71, knocking his Japanese rival into second on 83.44. But it was Woods, after putting together the best run in the first part of the final, who had the last word.
The Australian matched Kingsbury with 83.71 points but edged past the Canadian with a better turn score, 48.4 to Kingsbury¡¯s 47.7. That scenario also played out a day earlier in the women¡¯s moguls when Japan¡¯s Hinako Tomitaka missed out on bronze after losing the tiebreaker to France¡¯s Perrine Laffont.
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