In the final, the NSW south coast moguls skier laid down a run that edged out the sport’s most accomplished and decorated athlete
From the turquoise waters of a sleepy NSW beach town to the summit of his sport atop an alpine mountain in Italy, it has been by Cooper Woods’s own admission “an absolute journey”.
Australia celebrated its latest Olympic champion on Friday after the freestyle skier stunned the rest of the field in the final, including moguls greats Mikael Kingsbury and Ikuma Horishima, to become his country’s seventh Winter Olympics gold winner – and first medallist of these Milano Cortina games.
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