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Upsets and Surprises in Men’s Freeski Superpipe Finals
(allisports.com) The men's freeski superpipe final was full of upsets and surprieses with Gus Kenworthy taking the lead in his first-ever Dew Tour final, and France’s Kevin Rolland coming back from eleventh place to take the win in the end. Kenworthy was the first to drop in and he set the bar from the start after his huge left 9, switch 7, alley oop flatspin and a big double at the end to score 87.75. Kenworthy’s only threat for the entire first round came in the form of Simon Dumont’s first run, which scored an 86.75, to put Dumont in second. A bit of a hand drag caused a points deduction, but Dumont’s 12 and right 9 into a whiskey flip was proof he could come back in his second run and take it all.Rolland fell on his first run after an alley oop flatspin and he came back with back-to-back doubles in his second to take the lead with a 92.50. “I was so scared at the top because I crashed on my first run, but my second run was cool so it makes me feel confident for the next contest,” Rolland said. His winning run went like this: double flair mute grab, alley oop flatspin, switch 7, double flair and double cork 12 at the end. “I’m so good in my mind now,” Rolland said. “It’s just incredible for me. Now my goal is to win the Dew Cup and I have to try my best to get it.” The only two skiers left to ride after Rolland were Justin Dorey, who ended up falling midway, and Dumont, who lost a ski on the last hit and finished third with the 86.75.
History Repeats Itself in Snowboard Slope Finals
(allisports.com) Last month’s Winter Dew Tour snowboard slopestyle winners Jamie Anderson and Torstein Horgmo did it again at the second stop of the Winter Dew Tour in Killington, Vermont. In the women’s final, Anderson and Spencer O’Brien were neck in neck, with O’Brien taking over the lead from her in the second round after tackling the top rail section with a a frontside boardslide on the down rail into a nose slide on the flat down into a boardslide 180 out. She hit up the jumps with a switch backside 540 off the first, into a frontside 360 and a backside 360.But the Canadian Nike 6.0 rider didn’t hang on to it for long, because Anderson, the reigning Dew Cup champ, was up next as the last rider of the finals. Anderson answered back with a blunt on the rail to a 5050 frontside boardslide, a boardslide switch out to a Cab 5 indy, frontside 360 mute and a huge backside 180 mute to score 91.25 to O’Brien’s second-place score of 87.25. “Jamie’s a really great competitor and she’s always able to come through in a clinch whenever anyone puts pressure on her,” O’Brien said. “I definitely think she deserved to win.” This win and the win at the Nike 6.0 Open puts Anderson in the overall lead heading into the final stop of the Winter Dew Tour next month. “I’m really grateful and I’m definitely happy I’ve done good in the last two events," Anderson said. "I want to keep pushing women’s riding, and progression in general and just keep doing my best and have fun.” Third place went to New Zealand’s Rebecca Torr, with a score of 74.75 and a solid showing in the finals, including her stylish backside lipslide on the rail and solid backside 540 off the jump. “The rails were really on point, they were probably the most fun ever,” Torr said. “I’m just loving Killington, it’s so pretty here.” In the men’s field, Eric Willett had a fall on his first run and came back to finish in second-place with a 92.50. He earned his first Winter Dew Tour podium of the season. His run went like this: switch frontside boardslide 270 out to half Cab on frontside boardslide 270 out the rails. He threw a huge frontside 10 double cork, double cork backside rodeo to switch backside 10 double cork.
Bobby Brown Comes Back Solid for Slope Win
(allisports.com) The first round of the men’s freeski slope finals saw Swiss skier Elias Ambuhl take the lead as the only rider to score in the 90s after a solid run that included a double cork 12 and a switch right double cork 1080. With three rails and three jumps, you had to be both technical and have good amplitude to impress the judges. “It was crazy after the first run,” Ambuhl said. “I had a really good score and I was just waiting down here and I was super nervous because everyone was on top and I just waited.” He was trailed by 16-year-old wildcard Nick Goepper, who was flawless in his tricks and stomped all his landings. The biggest threat in switching up the podium came in the form of Bobby Brown, who did just that in Round 2 after falling on his first run and coming back strong in his second. “I tried to have nothing going through my mind just because I didn’t want to stress myself out,” Brown said. “So I went out, did my run and I was stoked.” The run resulted in the highest score of the day, a 93.75, and as the last skier to go, he took home the win. He started things off with a frontside switch up, then a switch 270 on backside switch up to 270 out, and finally a switch on to 630 out at the top of the course. He always impresses in the air, and he did just that with a switch double rodeo 9 Japan, a left double cork 12, and a switch right double cork 9. Brown’s win bumped Ambuhl into second with his first-run score of 91.75 and Goepper stepped it up on his next run to finish third with a score of 88.25. Goepper will be one to watch in the future, after throwing down in his second run with a lipslide 270 on the down rail, 540 switch up on the flat down box to cork 630 out on the up box. He was solid on the jumps with a left 9, switch right double 9, to right 12. “This is my first big finish of my career, and the third pro event that I’ve ever done, so I’m really, really excited,” Goepper said. Alexis Godbout was the overall points leader in freeski slope coming into the Killington stop of the Winter Dew Tour, but a knee injury forced him to miss out on the finals and Brown wasted no time in taking over the lead in the Race for the Dew Cup. He’s heading into the Toyota Championships in Snowbasin hungry for the chance at the first Dew Cup of his career.
Slope Powerhouses Torstein Horgmo and Jamie Anderson Surpass Conditions To Win Finals
(allisports.com) Mother nature once again dusted the slopestyle course with a layer of powder, but the top riders knew how to overcome the conditions and throw bangers during the Nike 6.0 Open snowboard slopestyle finals. Torstein Horgmo established his dominance after posting a 96.50 on his first run, and the score held on until the end.It was hard to beat his frontside nose bluntslide to fakie on to switch backside tailslide to switch on to start things off on the course. He kept it going with a switch frontside double cork 10 on the first jump to a switch backside 9 on the second.He was smooth and solid the entire run and finished with a backside 270 on the box and a backside 7 on the second-to-last jump. After a frontside double cork 10 on the last jump, he was the man to beat.For a moment, it seemed like Breckenridge local Eric Willet would take the event title after throwing the run of his life with back-to-back double corks and a backside rodeo 5. But the magic fell apart when he attempted a switch back 10 double cork on the last hit and slid out the landing.“That’s the run I’ve been wanting to do this entire time,” he said. But without the clean landing, it put him in seventh place.
Louie Vito and Queralt Castellet Shred Through the Storm
(allisports.com) The Nike 6.0 Open snowboard pipe finals were a case of rider against nature when the clouds started dumping down powder. But it was the same conditions for everyone at the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge and it came down to sticking your run and keeping up speed to make it to the top of the podium.In the men’s field, things didn’t go as planned for Louie Vito in his first run even through he threw down two double corks right off the bat. But landing those tricks loosened him up for the second run.“Last year I landed all my good runs in the second run,” Vito said. “I like contests, I like the pressure and I like having to stick it right then and there. So in the second run I just had to put it down and I just wanted to come out strong in the first two hits because I knew it was going to get slower as I went down.”Vito came out charging with a front double cork 10 to cab double cork 10 to crippler to Michalchuk to front 10 to cab 7. It was the sickest run of the contest, and he threw away his first-run score of 61.00 and catapulted into the lead with a score of 90.25. His score held on throughout the rest of the finals, and the Nike 6.0 rider took home the win.It was another Nike rider, Matt Ladley, who stood beside Vito on the podium after claiming second place with a score of 75.00.“I did back-to-back 10s at the top and that was key for me because that’s where most of the speed is for this run,” 19-year-old Ladley said. “And getting those in clean and being able to maintain somewhat decent amplitude and some speed throughout the whole run, I think that’s what did it for me today.”Third place went to Greg Bretz, another Nike rider who completed the podium sweep with a score of 73.75 in his first run. He came out charging with a backside 5 to front 10 to cab 7 to front 9. He finished things off with a back 9 and a front 10 and is looking forward to the next stop of the Tour in Killington.
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