Marie Martinod

France’s Marie Martinod is a freestyle skier. In the halfpipe, she took home two silver medals from the Winter Olympics in 2014 and 2018. Additionally, she earned three medals at the Winter X Games in the superpipe competition: one gold in 2017 and two bronzes in 2006 and 2014. Memories of my People (Au nom des miens), a 51-minute film, tells her story.

Martinod won silver in the inaugural competition at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi after taking a long vacation from competing. After accomplishing that feat at the age of 29, she went on to win her first X Games championship in Aspen in January 2017 and a second World Cup victory, 13 years after her first.

The French skier competed in PyeongChang 2018 for the second and final time in an Olympic competition. She started the competition by placing second behind the talented Canadian Cassie Sharpe with a strong first run score of 92.20 points. She achieved 92.60 points on her second run thanks to a successful 1080 grab, but she fell on her third run, giving the gold to Sharpe, who scored 95.80 on her last descent. On March 22, 2018, Martinod retired from competition at Tignes. She repeated her PyeongChang 2018 podium finish in second place behind Sharpe and in front of Brita Sigourney of the USA, amid the cheers of a sizable crowd that included her family and friends.