Livigno (Italy) (AFP) – Australian Josie Baff was proclaimed champion in the women's snowboard cross event at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, this Friday in Livigno.

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In the grand final, Baff, 23, was the fastest of the four competitors and ended up leading a podium in which the Czech Eva Adamczykova won the silver medal and the Italian Michela Moioli the bronze.

Baff thus manages to repeat in the Senior Games the title he achieved in the Youth Olympic event six years ago in Lausanne (Switzerland).

France, which had great aspirations in snowboard cross at these Olympic Games, finished without medals in this event, where until now it had always been on the podium since that discipline was on the program.

After the bitter fourth, fifth and sixth places recorded on Thursday in the men's event, the quartet of French representatives in these Games could not reach the podium, with Julia Nirani Pereira, Olympic silver in 2018, in sixth place as the most outstanding performance.

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