Anderson bags US slopestyle double

ROSA KHUTOR, Russia, Feb 9 (AFP): Jamie Anderson gave the United States a slopestyle snowboarding double at the Sochi Olympics on Sunday following Sage Kotsenburg's victory in the men's competition a day earlier.
After a mistake on the first run left her a little way down the field, four-time X-Games winner Anderson produced the goods on her second run with a near-perfect 95.25 score.
That pushed Finland's Enni Rukajarvi down to second after her second run had produced a long-time leading 92.50.
Britain's Jenny Jones held onto third with 87.25 after one of the favourites, Austria's Anna Gasser, made a mistake on her landing off the penultimate jump to cost her a chance of a medal.