Chloé Dufour-Lapointe places 9th in Olympic moguls after sister, teammate crash out
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The scorecard from Sunday night's Beijing Olympic moguls competition read two DNF (did not finish) and a missed podium for a trio of Canadian women.
First, 2014 champion Justine Dufour-Lapointe's quest to become a three-time Winter Games medallist came to a halt when the Montreal resident struggled on the first mogul following her takeoff on the top air and crashed to open a three-round final at Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou, China.
Sofiane Gagnon, making her Olympic debut, followed in the next round when the freestyle skier from Whistler, B.C., fell after her pole got stuck between a mogul and her ski.
That left Chloé Dufour-Lapointe, the 2014 Olympic silver medallist and lone Canadian remaining in the field, to refocus attention on the competition on a cold evening. Aiming to improve on a 17th-place Olympic performance four years ago in Pyeongchang, South Korea, she was eliminated in the second round and finished ninth overall.
Chloé said she intended to compete in the final World Cup of the season. As for returning to the Olympics one more time?
"I think I put a really nice bow on these Olympics," she said.
A determined Justine, after waving for her coach at the top of the course to get her a new pole, looked up to the sky in disappointment, shook her head and finished the run.
"I have to finish this Olympic dream on my two feet," Dufour-Lapointe later told CBC's Ali Chiasson while fighting back tears. "[On] bad days like this, the only thing that is important is to never give up.
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"Today, that was my only choice — to stay up and keep skiing, even though it was painful. Life is not always so easy but I just want to make sure everyone [watching] at home knows that I never give up. I fight those past four years so hard, was willing to take risk and ski with fire and dignity.
"It's not an easy [moment]," added Justine, "but I'm going to keep smiling through it."
When asked if this would be her final Olympics, a teary-eyed Justine closed her eyes, wiped them and looked into the distance.
"It's hard to tell right now but it will be another discussion, for sure," she said, before blowing a kiss to her Canadian fans.
After the crash, Justine and Chloe talked and shared a hug.
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