Hunter Hess’ Olympic dream is hanging by a thread.
In Friday’s men’s halfpipe final, the 27-year-old didn’t have a clean first run, and his second didn’t go any better. Hess bobbled on a landing and fell to the snow in his first run, which gave him a low score of 27.
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