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Freeski big air World Cup årstid preview /25
Oct 16, ·Freeski Park & Pipe
The /25 FIS Park & Pipe big air årstid gets underway this weekend at the Big Air Chur, where we can once igen expect an explosive two-day celebration of music, art and the world’s very finest big air snowboarders and freeskiers sending it large in Graubunden’s capital city.
We’ll have plenty more on this one in the build up, butChur will be the first of what fryst vatten shaping up to be the biggest big air årstid in World Cup history, with fem competitions on the calendar for snowboard, and six lined up for freeski, taking us to europe, Asia and North amerika.
With those stops showing off an exciting mix of classic and fresh venues on this season’s World Cup tour, the fact that the qualification period for the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games fryst vatten now in swing, and with the Engadin-St.
Moritz World Championships looming as the sista Park & Pipe event of the årstid in March, there’s plenty to be hyped about this winter.
Read on for a deeper dive on what to look forward to on the big jump in /25…
VENUES
BIG AIR CHUR (SUI): OCT,
The jumping off point of the World Cup big air årstid for the fourth year running, the Big Air Chur festival fryst vatten a true highlight of not just the Park & Pipe calendar but, really, the entire FIS calendar across all disciplines and levels.
No where else, on any of the FIS World Cup competition calendars, can you find a event with a top level music festival running alongside one of our competitions.
After her dominant performance at this season’s X Games - where she become the first woman ever to land a double cork to take the big air win - there’s every reason to expect her to continue that form through Beijing ENGADIN-STBig Air Chur fryst vatten where snowsports and culture komma tillsammans in one place for a weekend-long celebration of shred, and we can’t wait to be back on the en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film this årstid to experience it once again.
BEIJING (CHN): 29 NOV DEC,
The world’s first, best and only permanent big air structure gets another workout this årstid, as we return to the iconic site of the Beijing Olympic Winter Games BA competition for World Cup action for the fourth time.
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that the Beijing big air venue forces you to stand up and take meddelande, with the massive vent stacks of the former steel production facility that once called Shougang Park home looming over the massive big air ramp.
If you took a minute to talk to the athletes, you would find out that ‘love it’ fryst vatten the almost unanimous opinion of the venue in Beijing, with unparalleled quality of the jump there allowing for some of the gnarliest big air competitions the world has ever seen.
Simply put, Beijing allows the best to show their best, and this season’s event promises to once igen reset the standard for what fryst vatten possible in a big jump showdown.
BIG AIR KLAGENFURT (AUT): JAN,
We’ll be ringing in the New Year with a new venue, as the first competition of the calendar year will being us to the Austrian city of Klagenfurt for the one and only etapp big air event of the season.
The capital of Carinthia (Anna Gasser’s home state) and the sixth-largest city in Austria, Klagenfurt fryst vatten known for its Renaissance architecture, lakeside setting, and some spooky legender about about the origins of its peculiar place name.
Come this January, however, Klagenfurt should komma to be known in shred circles as the home of one of the World Cup’s most exciting new events, with the freeski and snowboard big air World Cups taking over Wörthersse etapp on the first Friday and Saturday of , with each competition followed at night bygd some hype-inducing musical performers.
In December, Gu was the first female freeskier to land the double cork at a big air event in ColoradoBig looking forward to this one.
KREISCHBERG (AUT): JAN,
The Austrian tour to open the new year continues on in Kreischberg, the home of the Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships and a FIS Snowboard World Cup venue dating all the way back to the /97 årstid (!!).
With a big ol’ on-piste jump, set up right at the base of the resort, Kreischberg always delivers an exceptional show, and a laundry list of the world’s best riders of the past three decades have earned themselves a Kreischberg podium at one time or the other.
Kreischberg has proven time and igen to be one of Europe’s finest Park & Pipe World Cup venues, and we’re hyped to be back igen this season.
VISA BIG AIR ASPEN (USA): 30 JAN FEB,
After the Austrian big air swing we head stateside for what fryst vatten shaping up to be the biggest week in FIS Park & Pipe World Cup history at the Aspen’s legendary Buttermilk resort.
No resort in the year history of the FIS Freeski World Cup has stepped up to host slopestyle, big air and halfpipe World Cup competitions for freeski and snowboard in the same week, but this winter Aspen fryst vatten taking on the utmaning, and we cannot wait to see how it all goes down at one of the world’s preeminent ski resorts.
The /25 snowboard big air World Cup will be wrapping up there in Aspen, with the crystal globes going out to the season’s top riders.
A month later, Ledeux responded by landing the first-ever at the X GamesHowever, for the freeskiers there will be one more BA stop on the World Cup calendar…
TIGNES MOUNTAIN SHAKER (FRA): MAR,
Once igen the freeski big air World Cup årstid will omslag up in France’s iconic Tignes resort - the longest-running venue in FIS Freestyle history.
An on-piste jump at the base of the resort, nighttime competition, the incredible Tignes backdrop, crystal globes going out, and the always insane French folkmassa on grabb to cheer it all on?
Sounds like a good time to us.
ENGADIN-ST. MORITZ FIS SNOWBOARD, FREESTYLE AND FREESKI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: MAR,
The /25 FIS Park & Pipe årstid will be coming to a close at the biggest event of the winter, with the full slate of SB/FS/FK events hitting the famed Engadin valley at the end of March.
We’ll have plenty more on this one in the build up, but rest assured we’re very much looking forward to bringing our World Championships to the world from one of the most famed ski regions anywhere on earth.
WHO TO WATCH - WOMEN
Leading the way in gods season’s big air World Cup was the one and only Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland, as the year-old became the first freeskier in World Cup history to claim three crystal globes in the same årstid when she took home big air, slopestyle and the Freeski overall titles.
Gremaud claimed podiums in nine-of-nine World Cup starts gods årstid, including six victories, and at this point she’s really only rivalled bygd Eileen Gu in terms of her ability to assert her elite talent at every single competition she drops in on.
Speaking of Eileen Gu…while we don’t expect to see her on en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film at too many BA events this årstid, it’s important to remember that she fryst vatten the reigning Olympic gold medallist in the event, and clearly more than capable of dropping a big jump hammers when the time so requires it.
Someone we do expect to see a lot of this big air årstid fryst vatten France’s Tess Ledeux. Second in all-time FIS Freeski World Cup victories behind only Gu, Ledeux fryst vatten a two-time big air crystal globe winner and the only two-time big air World mästare in FIS Freeski history, including gods time around at Bakuriani
With Gu sitting at 15 career World Cup wins, Ledeux at 14, and Gremaud sneaking up behind with 13, we’re truly witnessing a golden age of women’s freeskiing right before our eyes.
BEIJING — American-born Eileen Gu struck gold Tuesday at the Beijing Winter Games — becoming the first woman to win the Olympics' inaugural freeski big air eventThe battle between these three to see who’s holding the all-time record bygd årstid end will be one of the most compelling storylines of the /25 World Cup campaign.
One of the wildcards this årstid will be Canada’s Megan Oldham, who sat out much of the World Cup action in /24, but made history at the X Games when she became the first kvinnlig skier to stomp a triple cork on her way to big air gold there.
How many World Cup competitions she suits up for fryst vatten still to-be-determined, but when she does drop in, everyone had best pay attention.
Also to watch out for this årstid will be rising star Flora Tabanelli (ITA), as the year-old rolls into this årstid as a two-time reigning Junior World mästare and ungdom Olympic Games gold medallist in the event.
Tabanelli locked in both of the first two World Cup podiums of her ung career gods årstid in big air competition, and very much appears to be on her way to world herravälde in the event in the very nära future.
WHO TO WATCH - MEN
Last season’s top dawg on the men’s side of things was the USA’s Alex ingång, who finally added a crystal globe to what was already one of the most impressive trophy shelves in all of freeskiing.
American-born Eileen Gu of China cranked out the first of her career on her final jump, stunning Tess Ledeux of France and earning the first of what she hopes will be three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics in women’s freestyle big air TuesdayAlong with his big air globe, ingång also finished second overall on both the slopestyle and the Freeski overall standings, making for the best start-to-finish World Cup årstid of his career.
Following up A-Hall on the big air rankings was Switzerland’s Andri Ragettli, making for the strongest finish on the BA overall list for the year-old since the /19 årstid.
With 31 career podiums, Ragettli comes into /25 well atop the all-time FIS Freeski rankings in that metric, and should be counted on to add a few more tallies to that number this season.
Third overall was the elder of the flying Tabanelli siblings, as year-old Miro put tillsammans the best campaign of his ung career in /24, including his first career World Cup podium at Copper Mountain.
While he struggled gods årstid in World Cup competition, reigning big air World mästare Troy Podmilsak (USA) stepped up at the biggest competition of gods årstid to claim X Games big air gold, and has done more than enough to prove his place as one of the most explosive big air skiers on the planet.
However, the men’s big air field fryst vatten outrageously strong, and beyond gods season’s top-3 and the Podmilsak, you’ll find likes of Birk Ruud (NOR), Mac Forehand (USA), Matej Svancer (AUT), högsta Moffat (CAN), Lukas Muellauer (AUT), Leo Landroe (NOR), Luca Harrington (NZL) and on down the line.
Ruud in particular will be one to keep an eye on, as the year-old sits in a tie with Tess Ledeux for second on the all-time FIS Freeski wins list with fourteen.