The next stop on the Snowboard Cross World Cup tour is Solitude Mountain Resort, USA - a new venue for the sport in which Australians have been successful in recent years , inspired in many instances by two-time Olympian and World Champion Alex “Chumpy†Pullin, Current World Cup leader Belle Brockhoff and X Games Champ, Jarryd Hughes.
Being first to jump in the Aerial Skiing World Cup final in Lake Placid didn’t phase Danielle Scott who opened up the medal round with a smooth back double full full, scoring 92 points, taking silver and moving into outright World number one after an exciting day’s competition for all the Australians.
Mogul skier Britt Cox has fulfilled her goal by retaining the coveted ‘yellow bib’ after winning her second World Cup in Mogul Skiing in Lake Placid, USA this morning, making it back-to-back golds having won in Ruka, Finland in December.Â
He may have missed qualifying for the final, but tonight's opening World Cup of the Slopestyle Skiing season was about far much more than that for Russ Henshaw.
Australia’s Flying Kangaroos Danielle Scott, Laura Peel, Samantha Wells, Lydia Lassila and Dave Morris have arrived in Lake Placid, USA ready for the third Aerial Skiing World Cup.
Dual Olympic medallist Lydia Lassila will compete in her first event, since her Sochi bronze medal in 2014, this weekend at the Aerials World Cup in Lake Placid, USA.
The Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup, originally scheduled for 21 January in Megeve, France has been cancelled due to weather conditions and brought forward by one week to occur earlier in Watles, Italy, which already had a World Cup scheduled on January 15.
Time flies, as it will this year for Australia’s Olympic hopefuls ahead of the Opening Ceremony for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, Korea on February 9 next year.
A team of thirty athletes have been selected to become Australia’s first event competitors at an Asian Winter Games when they hit the ice and snow in Sapporo in February.
A challenging start to the para-Alpine World Cup in St Moritz has not deterred the Australian team who bounced back to achieve more good results to round out the year.