Ashley Caldwell, a two-time Olympian and Loudoun County native, enters the women’s aerials final after earning a bye in the preliminaries.
The finals consist of three jumps and the field shrinks after each jump. There will be 12 aerialists in the first round of the finals. The top eight get to jump again. And then only four will contend for a medal. Aerialists cannot repeat a jump in the finals round, so there’s some strategy involved. Most aren’t pulling out their biggest tricks early.
Rick Maese provides updates from the mixed zone near the bottom of the jump:
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