Gretchen Blieler one landing away from gold

Gretchen Blieler, a small town girl currently living Carlsbad CA had the world at the end of her snowboard in this years winter Olympics. She was favored to win the gold in the women's half-pipe event and did just enough to advanced in the next round. USA was predicted to sweep the all the medals in women's snowboarding. However only one of the three snowboarders got a medal. Gretchen did so well and looked as if she was going to clench gold as she had a almost perfect run until she had a little bit of a tumble on her landing. She second to last place at the end because of the fall. Tora Bright of Australia ended up winning gold and Hannah Teter of USA got silver. Gretchen now is training for the next winter olympics.