and the hand goes up for torin yater-wallace. as he takes a hard fall.. 24-foot, rock hard walls. you talked about the over vert, steams to be kicking everyone out. and one wall, and one wall not enough pop. >> that was a classic sign. the unfortunate reproduction of what we saw from, kevin rolland, that malody, athletes in the halfpipe will avoid at all cost. lack of pop, pushing out away from the wall. with this circumstance and the left wall, the skiers' left wall being something where they have to absorb lest they be thrown back into the middle. some adjustments maybe, carried over off to the opposite wall, where that sort of strategy is not going to serve them too well. and took off a little early, right there, comes around. catches the rock hard edge. you can see, may have done that earlier in the week. a big abrasion on his lower back. really a tough impact right there. things looked so good. as you mentioned the second run was a thing of beauty. >> similar to what kevin rolland did, coming in switch. >> coming in backwards, arguably worst. he see

. >> we first ran into torin last month in as didn't pen. >> he's chill, friendly.and the lives of his family have long depended on how good he is. at this. >> first time i even made money at a national contest i made like 2000 when i was 12 and went right to my parents room. >> >> his income is how we surviv survived. >> at 15 winning silver in sochi in the pipe and gold in the x games and then this. >> got up really early. skied one run through the half pipe. and was laying on the ground just gasping for air. and they x-rayed me and told me i had a collapsed lung. was just that thought of, why me. >> there was much worse to come. >> my mom was diagnosed with cancer when i was going into the olympic qualifying process for sochi. she was in and out of the hospital in a horrible state. >> he made it to sochi but understandably under performed way off the medals. pyeongchang is a shot at redemption and miracle he made it. >> when you are near death everyone comes to a very similar picture. >> one morning in 2014 he felt rough going out to ski. >> he goes, i can't figu

torin yater has a cool name. torin yater-wallace hopes to make it onto the podium.me life-threatening obstacles on his journey to the olympics. don, good morning. >> good morning. time and again torin yater-wallace has defied the odds on the halfpipe but it's not the life and death sport that's brought him challenge. two years ago he was on the brink of death due to an illness and he fought back and now he is chasing redemption. >> the freedom and just the expression of yourself that you have when you're essentially just kind of creating your own path. just that feeling of accomplishment when you've landed the perfect run. i mean there's nothing like it. whether it's just tricks or just catching air off of a little cliff. >> torin yater-wallace knows how to catch air and float in control as he flies off a 22-foot high wall. his death-defying tricks on the halfpipe makes him one of the most decorated skiers on the run. yater-wallace's packet to gold seemed inevitable. but days before the game, his mother was diagnosed with cancer, and following an accident during a r

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. >> hendrickson's boyfriends is olympic skier torin yater-wallace krconsidered to b the best in theering from her knee, yater-wallace same down with a serious infection and had to be placed in a medically induced coma. >> doctors ka s came in and sai may not make it. injury is one thing, but an illness, we're stronger because of it. >> you all recovered together, right, you had the knee injury and he was getting better himself? >> it was the longest two-month date we've ever had. >> it sounds like a terrible date. >> you know, it was the best you can make of those types of times to be next to each other. >> now, they're both in pyeongchang, looking for gold. on monday, hendrickson will be back on the top of that, this time, healthy and ready to go. what are your expectations here? >> oh, man, i dream about a medal every day. again, i don't want to walk away disappointed. i've worked way too hard to be here two a two-time olympian. >> but you wouldn't turn away a medal if they gave you one? >> absolutely. on those hard days that's what you dream about and it motivates you. >> what ki

there were cringe moments after two nasty walls including torin yater. both were able to walk away. in the alpine, it was youth over experience. 22-year-old mikaela shiffrin slalomed their way to silver, but there was no happy ending for lindsey vonn's olympic career. she veered off course. back to women's hockey for a moment, though, goalie maddie rooney was amazing. she defended more than 30 shots from cade yans. after team usa won that match, somebody went on wick peep ya and changed her occupation to secretary of defense. >> oh, my gosh. that's awesome, ben. >> we all love that. >> the internet provides. >> go team usa. >>> all cars in the u.s. will soon be required to have rearview cameras. a report overnight >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by toyota. proud partner of team usa. >>> police in seattle are asking for the public's help to solve a more than 16-year-old murder myste mystery. >> why they may be close to solving a murder involving a prosecutor. bring the smell of nature wherever you are. feel the power of thenew power...smax. ...to fight back thera