Lydia Ierodiaconou Lassila just won the Women’s Aerial skiing Gold Medal for Australia.
Australia ??
… Lassila took a congratulatory phone call from Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and showed her same knack for twisting and turning on the slopes by urging him to increase funding for better facilities at home.
“I was trying to persuade Kevin, my mate Kev, to build us a water ramp so that we can spend more time at home and also encourage some other youngsters to get involved with this sport,” said Lassila, who spends more than nine months a year training abroad. …
Lydia was an Artistic gymnasts as were the Silver and Bronze medalists from China.
The judging I find quite confusing. Many of the athletes do similar jumps with similar performance. Here Lydia tries to explain the rules for the rest of us.
Click PLAY or watch it on Olympics.com.au.
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