PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Ester Ledecka stood at the bottom of the hill, staring intently at the scoreboard while her coaches, team, family —- heck, everybody in the whole place — erupted in screams of delirium.
Ledecka didn’t understand why. Nor could she understand why the scoreboard hadn’t been updated. It showed her in first place, and surely that was a mistake.
“I was thinking, `OK, they’re going to change the time. I’m going to wait for a little bit, and they’re going to switch and put some more seconds on,’ ” the Czech skier said. “I was just staring at the board and nothing was happening.