When Queralt Castellet (Sabadell, 1989) made her Olympic debut, she was still in high school and studying for Catalan literature exams during training. That debut was back in 2006, at the Turin Games, on the Bardonecchia slope. Twenty years later, Castellet participated in her sixth Olympic Games in the same setting, the Italian Alps, although a bit further east, in Livigno. The skier from the Vallès region couldn't win a medal in a halfpipe final affected by the snow. The gold medal was surprisingly won by a 17-year-old, Choi Gaon, from South Korea. She secured it with a brilliant third run, recovering from a hard fall on her first run, in which she had injured herself. Gaon beat the overwhelming favorite, American Chloe Kim, and Japan's Mitsuko Ono, who finished third. Of the three medalists, two weren't even born when Queralt was already competing in the Games. "Returning to the Games in the Alps has brought back so many memories. I still feel the same excitement; I have butterflies in my stomach from nerves. It was in Turin in 2006 when I knew for sure that I wanted to win an Olympic medal," said Castellet before a final in which she finished in tenth place.

SnowboardSkateboarding, skateboarding, and surfing. Three spectacular sports, ideal for brave people who enjoy adventure. Three sports that involve taking risks and traveling many kilometers in search of snow or the perfect wave. Three sports that appear in the social media biography of Nora Cornell (Girona, 2005), a young woman. snowboarder who is making her Olympic debut. She has practiced all three sports, but excels in one.

Queralt Castellet has made history at the Beijing Winter Games: she has won the silver medal, the first podium for a Catalan athlete in the history of the Winter Games. Castellet came second in snowboard's halfpipe event this Thursday in Zhangjiakou.