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13.02.2006 - Snowboard: Hannah’s Triumph

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Snowboard: Hannah’s Triumph

Feb 13 2006
Up there, on the Olympic podium, there is a girl called Hannah Teter.
She is nineteen years old with a candid smile, an American with an unbridled willingness to win despite her young age, almost the same age as the phenomenon Shaun White. She has now also entered in the half pipe elite. Four years after Kelly Clark, it is yet another American to put the gold medal round her neck and could not be otherwise due to the technical difference with respect to other athletes of other countries. Tonight in USA House there will be a celebration, because behind the high score (46.4) of the starlet from Belmont, her compatriot Gretchen Bleiler followed suit (43.4), followed by the able Norwegian Kjersti Buaas, a well-deserved bronze medal thanks to a fantastic second run (42.0).

Hannah Teter honoured to the end the competition which took place on the slope of Melezet in Bardonecchia, lit again by a shining sun. Before the last run, aware of the Olympic title in her pocket (in the previous one she had obtained 44.6), she let all her talent loose on the perfect Italian snow. An interminable series of wide, high and fluid rotations concluded with the unfailing embrace of her team. Kelly Clark also complimented her at the finish, who after the gold medal in 2002 had to settle for, so to say, fourth place. The Rhode Island champion paid for the strict judgment of the jury and the criticism of the audience also for the scores given to the French Doriane Vidal, only eighth with 35.7.

For the very blonde Teter, after a third place at the Canadian World Championships in Whistler 2005, this is the consecration: in the well-deserved holidays that will follow the Olympic Winter Games she will be able to dedicate time to all her hobbies, first of all skateboard, surf and soccer. A remarkable step ahead for the Scandinavian Buaas, since in Salt Lake City she finished fourth scraping the dream of the podium.
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