{"id":14998,"date":"2018-02-17T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T09:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/02\/17\/this-must-be-some-mistake-says-snowboarder-after-winning-olympic-gold-in-skiing\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T09:06:11","slug":"this-must-be-some-mistake-says-snowboarder-after-winning-olympic-gold-in-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/this-must-be-some-mistake-says-snowboarder-after-winning-olympic-gold-in-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"'This Must Be Some Mistake,' Says Snowboarder After Winning Olympic Gold In Skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The Czech Republic’s Ester Ledecka won the women’s Super-G race at the Jeongseon Alpine Center by just 0.01, pulling off an upset at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.<\/p>\n

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She went up the hill a snowboarder but came down an Olympic champion skier. That’s one way to tell the story of Ester Ledecka, the Czech athlete who stunned the world \u2014 and herself \u2014 by winning the women’s Super-G race at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

“How did that happen?” she asked a cameraman at the bottom of her run.<\/p>\n

Before today, Ledecka had been most well-known as a snowboarder \u2014 that’s where she’s had the most success, including world titles and a trip to the Sochi Games in 2014. But she has refused to specialize in one sport, and she started racing on the World Cup Alpine circuit two years ago.<\/p>\n

As for how she won, an elated Ledecka said, in a transcription from the Olympics’ news service, “I really don’t know what happened. You tell me … I was riding. I really don’t know what happened. It was great.”<\/p>\n

When asked for her reaction after seeing her name flash on top of the leaderboard, Ledecka said she thought, “This must be some mistake, that they’re going to switch the time for some others.”<\/p>\n