CYPRESS MOUNTAIN, Canada—Alexandre Bilodeau’s historic gold medal in men’s moguls was a huge joy and relief for his family and friends who waited anxiously as he completed his run.
“I am completely out of words, I don’t know what to say,” said his sister Beatrice Bilodeau, 16.
A mogul skier herself, she was a forerunner testing the course before the Olympians went down.
“When I saw him go down and I saw his time I was crying before I even saw the results.”
But when she saw the results it really hit home, she said.
“I was like ‘Calm down, do not cry right now, there is still another [skier] going down.’ And then when I saw [Colas] Guilbaut’s run I was like ‘Yeah!’ I was completely out of words.”
She said even though as a racer she understands the pressures involved and what it feels like to stand at the top of the hill herself, she still gets incredibly nervous before her brother’s big Olympic runs.
“I learned to control myself, in Torino I was so nervous before his run that I threw up, but this time I didn’t, I learned to control myself.”
