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'This Must Be Some Mistake,' Says Snowboarder After Winning Olympic Gold In Skiing

The Czech Republic's Ester Ledecka won the women's Super-G race at the Jeongseon Alpine Center by just 0.01, pulling off an upset at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

She went up the hill a snowboarder but came down an Olympic champion skier. That's one way to tell the story of Ester Ledecka, the Czech athlete who stunned the world — and herself — by winning the women's Super-G race at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

"How did that happen?" she asked a cameraman at the bottom of

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