KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Jamie Anderson stood at the top of the slopestyle course Sunday, her boots strapped to her snowboard and opportunity at her feet. She had won more of slopestyle’s big competitions than any other woman, but now the event was in the Olympics, and she had one run to capture the gold medal she was expected to win.
“I was freaking out,” Anderson said later.
Around her neck, under her jacket, she wore mantra beads, from a yoga teacher in Breckenridge, Colo., that Anderson said gave “sacred energy.” There was “power stone” and “moonstone” of clear quartz. In her ears, she had the Nas song “I Can” playing.
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