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A familiar name to the Teton Valley is atop the FIS leaderboard for women’s moguls thus far in the 2018-19 season.Jaelin Kauf, originally of Alta, Wyo., received a score of 83.06 for her run in Saturday’s moguls second final in Thaiwoo, China, moving up from No. 4 in qualifications and No. 2 in the first final round. The 2018 U.S. Olympian followed that up with a win in Sunday’s dual moguls, getting a score of 82.55 to take the win over France’s Perrine Laffont (60.26). The wins give the 22 year-old Kauf 245 FIS World Cup points, putting her at No. 1 in the women’s moguls leaderboard. Previously No. 1 ranked Laffont is five points behind her in second.The U.S. moguls team next competes Jan. 12 in Calgary.Snowmobiler Justin Thomas, originally from Wyoming but based in Idaho Falls as of winning the King of Kings and King of Mod Stock in the 42nd annual World Championship Snowmobile Climb in March in Jackson Hole, qualified for Winter X Games over the weekend, per his Instagram. Thomas last competed there in 2015, taking silver in Hillcross. Winter X Games take place from January 24 to 27 in Aspen, Colo.
Two-time Olympian Missy Franklin announced Wednesday in a letter to espnW that she is retiring from competitive swimming after five Olympic gold medals and 11 world championship gold medals. The 23 year-old had surgeries on both shoulders in early 2017 and shared in September 2017 with SwimSwam that she was diagnosed with depression two months before the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials. She had been training at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was a student athlete in 2014 and 2015, before relocating to the University of Georgia and learning that she has ‘severe chronic tendonitis of both the rotator cuff and the bicep tendon.’ Additional surgery was an option, but its success was not guaranteed, and she decided to retire and not take the risk. Her full letter can be read here