![]() “Every race I enter I want to win and that’s what I’m aiming for in Beijing. “It’s good to come into a Games feeling really ready for it, I’ve done everything I can to be as best prepared as possible,” Brockhoff said. ![]() Meanwhile, Brockhoff sits in third in the women's world cup standings and Baff is in 14th after five of the eight world cup events this season.Īustralia also has a quota spot in the mixed team event, a new event for the Olympics and the favourites to pair up will be Brockhoff and Hughes who won World Championship gold in February last year.Ģ9-year-old Brockhoff is enthusiastic to chase two gold medals at Beijing 2022 and plans on using the lack of World Cup golds this season to light a fire under her. Lambert heads into the Olympics as the top-ranked Australian man, sitting in 10th in the world cup standings with Bolton one place behind him in 11th. Josie Baff will make her debut, two years after winning Snowboard Cross gold at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, as will 26-year-old Adam Dickson. After solid performances in seeding and quarter-finals, she didn't finish in her semi-final race and had to compete in the B Final, which she finished in fifth in, to finish 11th at her second Olympics. While Hughes was the top performer in 2018 winning silver, Bolton improved on his 11th place finish in 2014 to finish in 10th, meanwhile, Lambert couldn't make it through to the quarter-final after a tough 1/8 final draw.īrockhoff's Olympic journey hasn't been an easy one, just 11 months out from Pyeongchang she ruptured her ACL but managed to recover in time and get enough time on snow to make the Olympic team. ![]() Olympic silver medallist Jarryd Hughes from Pyeongchang will be heading to his third Olympics along with Cam Bolton and Belle Brockhoff, and Adam Lambert will be going to his second. The Australian Olympic Committee has selected an experienced Snowboard Cross team with only two members of the six athlete team making their Olympic debut. ![]()
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