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Courtenay's Spencer O'Brien top Canadian in snowboard big air

PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of — Spencer O'Brien of Courtenay was the top Canadian in women's snowboard big air. O'Brien scored a combined 113.25 points over her three runs in the sport's Olympic debut, finishing in ninth.
Spencer O'Brien
Courtenay's Spencer O'Brien was the top Canadian in the women's snowboard big air competition, finishing in ninth.

PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of — Spencer O'Brien of Courtenay was the top Canadian in women's snowboard big air.

O'Brien scored a combined 113.25 points over her three runs in the sport's Olympic debut, finishing in ninth. Laurie Blouin of Stoneham, Que., was 12th.

"I ended up going with a lot safer of runs than I would have liked to, but that's how the day panned out for me," O'Brien said. "Pretty disappointed I couldn't put on my best but that's kind of what I had today and that's how it goes."

Blouin, who won a silver medal last week in slopestyle, fell on her first big air jump, scored 39.25 on her second and opted not to take her third run.

Blouin said she had been nursing a bruise on her left buttock since Wednesday and aggravated it when she fell on her first jump.

Austria's Anna Gasser won gold, scoring 96 on her final run for a combined 185 points. American Jamie Anderson took silver with 177.25 points and Zoi Sadowski Synnott of New Zealand earned bronze.