Olympics: Staff USA captures bronze alpine snowboarding ladies’s crew mixed

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Staff USA racked up a bronze medal within the alpine snowboarding ladies’s crew mixed occasion on the 2026 Winter Olympics on Tuesday – and it wasn’t the skiers followers have been anticipating.

The crew of Jacqueline Wiles and Paula Moltzan have been the Individuals on the rostrum within the occasion. Wiles tackled the downhill portion of it and Moltzan accomplished the slalom. Wiles had a downhill time of 1:37.04 and Moltzan put collectively a slalom time of 44.87.

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United States' Jacqueline Wiles, left, and teammate United States' Paula Moltzan present their bronze medals in an alpine ski, ladies's crew mixed race, on the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Picture/Andy Wong)

The pair completed behind Austria’s Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber, who received gold, and Germany’s Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher, who received silver.

The crew of Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson have been the favorites to at the very least get a bronze medal given Shiffrin’s prowess on the World Cup circuit and Johnson received a gold medal in downhill earlier within the Video games.

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United States' Paula Moltzan, left, celebrates together with her teammate United States' Jacqueline Wiles on the end space of an alpine ski, ladies's crew mixed race, on the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Picture/Andy Wong)

Johnson had a stable run, ending with a time of 1:36.59 – the most effective of any competitor in her group. Shiffrin wasn’t fast sufficient to raise her pair to the rostrum, ending a half-second behind Moltzan within the occasion. The group was simply over three-tenths of a second behind Wiles and Moltzan for the bronze.

It’s the primary Olympic medal for Wiles. She’s competed for Staff USA within the Olympics in 2014, 2022 and 2026.

United States' Paula Moltzan, left, celebrates together with her teammate United States' Jacqueline Wiles on the end space of an alpine ski, ladies's crew mixed race, on the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Picture/Andy Wong)