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and their performances were all the more impressive, given the brutal winds that we ve experienced today. the ladies snowboard slopestyle qualification was canceled. and so, too, one of the blue ribbon events of the games, the men tease downhill. the course is a good deal higher than where our studio is here. and the high winds on the slopes forced organizers to reschedule just hours before its start. and that s really, really tough on the skiers who woke up, what for many of them will have been the biggest day of their sporting careers. but those on the alpine circuit, the favorites, are really used to it. norway tweeted downtill canceled due to strong winds. it s imperative with fair conditions and i applaud the decision. the downhill will now take place on thursday. and there was a good lesson in never giving up. in the men s skiathlon norway s kruger made an incredible fight
south korea. six medal events are scheduled for sunday, and norway has dominated at the men s skiathlon podium securing the gold, silver and bronze medals. amanda davies joins now from pyeongchang, south korea, with the highlights. good to have you. hi, george. and the big news, look at this, it is actually snowing. it really feels like a winter olympics here on this sunday evening in pyeongchang. we ve got news of that skiathlon in a minute. but the usa has a new superstar on the snowboard. 17-year-old red gerard competing in his first olympic games. he s admitted he cannot believe he claimed the gold in the slopestyle. he beat off some pretty stiff competition from the canadian max parrot who took silver and mack mcmorris who took bronze. but mcmorris has a truly inspirational story. he fought back from a near fatal
accident last march where he feared he wouldn t survive. whilst he was waiting for the helicopter to lift him off the mountain. but he s fought back in style to his place on the podium. and their performances were all the more impressive today, given the absolutely brutal winds that have been battering pyeongchang today. the ladies snowboard slopestyle qualification was canceled. and so, too, one of the blue ribbon events of the games, the men s downhill. the course is quite a good deal higher than we are here. and high winds on the slopes forced organizers to reschedule just hours before it starts. that s really tough on the skiers who woke up for what for many of them would have been the biggest day of their sporting careers. but those on the alpine circuit are used to it. and norway tweeted saying downhill canceled due to stropg winds. it s imperative, with fair conditions, and i applaud the decision, thanks fis alpine and
i watch america, north korea, moon jae-in. thank you. thank you very much. please help us. now while protesters like that are, in fact, angry, what they really do not want is to have that unification with north korea. what s interesting here is even though these protesters are quite committed it underscores what is a lot more anger in south korea of late towards moon jae-in. especially in the younger generation. his approval ratings are down. it will be really interesting to see how south koreans accept this kind of entent with north korea in the weeks that follow the olympics. paula newton, cnn, seoul. still ahead here on newsroom, millions of people in iran come together to celebrate the anniversary of a revolution. we ll have details on that. plus norway developing a nice