Canada’s Kingsbury finishes off the podium in dual moguls at worlds
Moguls ace Mikael Kingsbury was so dominant in freestyle skiing this season that it seemed impossible that he could go home from the world championships with only one bronze medal.
But that’s what happened as the 24-year-old from Deux-Montagnes, Que., finished 13th in the dual moguls on Thursday. He had been held to only a bronze medal in the single moguls a day earlier.
The Olympic silver medallist won seven World Cup gold medals in a row coming into the championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain, and had claimed the sixth crystal globe of his career as the season’s overall champion.
But he couldn’t find his rhythm in the summer-like conditions and watched as underdog Ikuma Horishima of Japan swept both events.