PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Torin Yater-Wallace is due some decent luck in the freestyle skiing halfpipe final on Wednesday.
Between injury and illness, Yater-Wallace, a native of Aspen, Colo., had a scary run of bad fortune from 2013-15.
“I’ve dealt with some unfortunate instances and bumps the last few years,” Yater-Wallace said last week. “It doesn’t change how I feel about what I’ve done in my skiing career and my passion for what I do. Essentially I just kept doing what I did before.”
Only 22, he established himself as a freestyle skiing prodigy more than a decade ago.