Did Czech snowboarder Ledecka really win super-G gold on borrowed skis?

The plot thickens.

One of the most astonishing moments of PyeongChang 2018 unfolded on Day 8, when Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic captured gold in the women's super-G at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre. Ledecka, 22, beat out American superstar Lindsey Vonn - who ultimately finished tied for sixth - and reigning Olympic champion Anna Veith of Austria, who grabbed the silver.

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And, incredibly, Ledecka isn't even really a skier. She's a two-time world champion in parallel giant slalom snowboarding, and is among the favorites to capture gold in that event next week. Snowboarding is Ledecka's forte.

Just competing in both snowboarding and Alpine skiing, never mind winning an event in the latter, was historic.

But it got better. As she carved her way down the hill, the NBC broadcast noted that Ledecka wasn't even using her own skis; instead, they said, she had borrowed them from U.S. star Mikaela Shiffrin, who pulled out of the event earlier in the week.

Her accomplishment - which is truly is remarkable - now had an added layer of intrigue.

In the aftermath of Ledecka's improbable triumph, multiple reports highlighted the fact that the 22-year-old's skis belonged to Shiffrin. A tweet from the American, congratulating her talented Czech peer, only served to add weight to the claims that were rapidly spreading.

Is it all too good to be true, though? Sadly, it seems so.

Per Tim Layden of Sports Illustrated, Shiffrin's mother and coach, Eileen, said the skis did not, in fact, belong to the U.S. Olympian.

Whose were they, then? Only one thing seems certain at this point: they weren't Ledecka's.

"I'm not sure which skis I'm using. I hope mine," the Czech gold medalist said after the race, as quoted by Layden. "Actually I always choose some skis which were already riding with some other girls, maybe from past seasons, because it's better for me because I don't do as many runs on them because I do also snowboarding and it's quite difficult for the speed demons to have the good skis when you're not riding them as often."

Vonn, discussing Ledecka's gold medal, perhaps summed everything up best.

"At the Olympics, a lot of weird stuff happens."