Maddie Bowman's grandmother reveals gold dream

Maddie Bowman's grandmother Lorna Perpall has revealed she dreamt that the American freestyle skier would win an Olympic gold medal.

The American clinched gold in the women's half-pipe event at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi on Thursday.

"I had a dream about nine months ago and it just Maddie got gold," the Los Angeles Times quotes the 78-year-old as saying. "I thought, 'Well, that's my wishful thinking.'

"Maddie was the one that gave me the name. She was being interviewed on a public radio station. The interviewer said, 'It sounds like you and your grandmother are very close.'

"And Maddie said, 'Oh yeah. She's one Bad Ass Grandma. And I want to be just like her when I grow up.'"

Marie Martinod of France won the silver medal, while Japan's Ayana Onozuka clinched bronze.