Freestyle-World champion Melville Ives crashes out of halfpipe qualifiers
Italia
LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb 20 : New Zealand's Fin Melville Ives crashed badly during Friday's Winter Olympics men's freestyle skiing halfpipe qualifiers, ruling out one of the top medal hopefuls. The 19-year-old current halfpipe world champion fell on both qualification runs, but more seriously on the second. Medics intervened immediately, while spectators fell silent for several tense minutes before he was stretchered away. Team New Zealand said Melville Ives took a "heavy knock" but was conscious
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