Lodge, 17, shared the podium with two Americans \u2014 gold medallist Elizabeth Lemley and bronze medallist Abby McLarnon \u2014 as dual moguls made its Winter Youth Olympics debut.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:<\/strong> Sinner seals emotional maiden slam with 'epic' comeback<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> The 'special' Aussie who guided Sinner to title<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Medvedev makes unwanted grand slam history<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \ufeffThomas, 16, won Australia's first-ever big air medal in Winter Youth Olympics history. She was beaten to the gold medal by Italy's Flora Tabanelli, with Germany's Muriel Mohr claiming bronze.<\/p>\n "I was so excited to ski against Lemley in the big final. It was so much fun," Lodge said.<\/p>\n "I came into today just wanting to ski consistently and do the same runs I was doing in training. That is what I was focusing on in the start gate.<\/p>\n "I also just wanted to go out there and do my own run, not worry about what the person next to me was doing, and I think I did that.<\/p>\n "I am just so stoked to represent Australia and to come away with a silver medal."<\/p>\n Watch the\ufeff Winter Youth Olympic Games of Gangwon 2024 live on<\/strong><\/em> 9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and<\/strong><\/em> Stan Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/SnowAust\/status\/1751485151824035956<\/a><\/p>\n Thomas became Australia's third medallist of Gangwon 2024, with Abbey Wilson and William Martin combining for bronze in the snowboard cross team competition about a week earlier, before Lodge took home silver.<\/p>\n "I'm really, really happy. I stomped my first run and it gave me a lot of confidence for the next two runs," Thomas said.<\/p>\n Thomas' silver medal took Australia's all-time Winter Youth Olympics medal tally to 10.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" O\ufeffn the snowy, mountainous terrain of South Korea's Gangwon over the weekend, two Australian freestyle skiers made major breakthroughs in their budding careers. Jindabyne's Lottie […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":363729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363730,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363727\/revisions\/363730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/363729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n