Jeff Jacobs: Marino ‘devastated’ snowboarders competed in unsafe conditions
A day later, Julia Marino sat in front of her computer in South Korea and tried hard to make sense of what happened amid the whipping winds of Phoenix Park.
There was no sense to be made.
An Olympic event that should never have been run Monday was run. Safety was sacrificed. Dreams that take four years to build were crushed in seconds. Magnificent tricks, ones that would have showcased the far-reaching arc of snowboarding slopestyle, gave way to more rudimentary moves of the past.
Yet everyone still held their breath in fear of catastrophic injury.
The International Ski Federation had postponed the alpine women’s grand slalom that same day.