At the top of her gold-medal run in the women's snowboard slopestyle on Sunday at the Olympics, Jamie Anderson fist-bumped with US snowboarding coach Bill Enos, took a deep breath, stretched, and then stomped the biggest run of her life on the world stage.

Anderson, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., claimed gold in the first Olympic women’s snowboarding slopestyle event.

“I relaxed last night with mediation and yoga,” Anderson said. “If I didn’t, I never would have calmed down. We have been waiting and training for over two years for this event and to show the world how much fun snowboarding is.”

Snowboarding and its lifestyle is an American sport. Ever since Jake Burton and others transformed the ski culture into more of a lifestyle with the emphasss on style, personal expression, and fun, Americans have been the ones to beat in major worldwide events. Their dominance here at the 2014 Winter Olympics in claiming slopestyle gold in both the both men’s and women’s events cements that legacy.

Anderson has five sisters and two brothers, and her sister, Joanie won the 2007 X Games in snowboardcross at the same time Jamie took the gold in slopestyle. She was the youngest Winter X Games medalist at age 15 – she edged out Shaun White by days and all in all, Jamie has three X Games medals.

She was joined on the podium Sunday in Sochi by Enni Rukajarvi of Finland (silver) and Jenny Jones of Great Britain (bronze). Jones became the first Briton to win an Olympic Winter Games medal on snow.