Freestyle skier finishes fifth in halfpipe final at Milano Cortina
Eileen Gu says Australian ‘has many, many, many medals in her future’
Melbourne schoolgirl Indra Brown missed out in her quest to become Australia’s youngest Winter Olympic medallist at just 16, ending up fifth in a spectacular final of the freeski halfpipe on the last day of the Milan-Cortina Games.
The teenage prodigy, who has soared from nowhere to top the World Cup standings this season, had been hoping to provide a glorious flourish to Australia’s most successful winter Games by landing medal number seven on Sunday.
But as winter sport’s biggest superstar Eileen Gu laid down two dazzling runs to take her third career Olympic gold, Brown did not let herself down with a nerveless last-round run of 87.00 that thrust her from 10th place to fifth.
