Twenty-four others tried. They each took two rides down a diabolical course. They battled wind, they teetered and toppled, they fell and skidded and bounced. Most failed to complete their runs without crashes. The lucky ones finished by playing it safe.

And then there was American Jamie Anderson, who on Monday at the Pyeongchang Games did what other female snowboarders could not: make it look like the weather wasn’t a problem.

Anderson towered over the field, winning Winter Olympics gold in slopestyle snowboarding — the U.S.’s second gold medal of these Games after Red Gerard won the men’s slopestyle event Sunday. Anderson defended the gold she had first won at the Sochi Games in 2014.

Anderson did not even need her second and final run — the last of the day — to clinch. By then, the 24 others had each gone twice, and nobody had scored higher than 76.33. Anderson had been awarded an 83 on her first run, and then watched for another hour as the world’s best snowboarders were bedeviled by the weather. Temperatures at Phoenix Snow Park were in the low teens, and more important, winds whipped at 15 mph.

“The conditions helped the more experienced riders,” Anderson’s brother, Luke, said while celebrating with his family at the bottom of the course. “And she’s so competitive. She likes to win.”

Nagasu lands triple axel

Mirai Nagasu and Adam Rippon shared tears of sorrow when they were left off the Olympic team four years ago, but they shed tears of joy together Monday.

The veteran figure skaters put together flawless back-to-back performances.

Nagasu became the first American woman to land a triple axel in the Olympics. Rippon nailed both his triple axels.

They helped earn the United States the bronze medal in the team competition.

Canada won the gold medal with the “Olympic Athletes from Russia” taking the silver.

More skiing delays

The women’s giant slalom featuring Mikaela Shiffrin has been rescheduled for Thursday, the same day as the men’s downhill. The first two events on the alpine skiing schedule were postponed because of strong wind. Both will be contested Thursday but on different hills. The women’s giant slalom, which was supposed to be Shiffrin’s debut at these Winter Games, was called off about three hours before it was supposed to begin Monday. The same happened with the men’s downhill on Sunday.

U.S. women rally for win

The U.S. women’s hockey team eked out a 3-1 win over a gritty Finland team Sunday at Kwandong Hockey Center.

Monique Lamoureux-Morando evened the game near the midway point of the second period, and Kendall Coyne scored the game-winner 21⁄2 minutes later on a power play.

American wins silver in luge

Felix Loch of Germany lost a bid for his third straight men’s luge gold medal when he hit the wall on his fourth and final run. That gave the gold to David Gleirscher of Austria and opened the door for American Chris Mazdzer to win a surprise silver medal.

Mazdzer was just fifth after the first run and fourth after two. But he had an outstanding third run, the best in the competition, and moved in to second, two-tenths of a second behind Loch.