Males’s Snowboarding Slopestyle: People Search for Medals

Three People want to crowd the medal stand on the males’s freestyle snowboarding slopestyle occasion, however a Europe-centric discipline could disrupt the best way there.

Nick Goepper would love nothing greater than to finish his full rainbow of medals, having gained a bronze in 2014 and a silver in 2018. A few of his stiffest competitors will come from his American teammates, Alex Corridor and Colby Stevenson.

Andri Ragettli, the defending world champion, completed first in {qualifications} and leads a robust contingent from Switzerland. Birk Ruud of Norway, the gold medal winner in massive air, certified second.

The competition would be the closing exhibiting for the slopestyle course, a standout venue — however a brief one, made from snow — designed to seem like a bit of the close by Nice Wall.

Its mixture of rails, obstacles and jumps has vexed a number of the world’s finest snowboarders and freeskiers already however has additionally created some stellar Olympic champions, together with Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and Max Parrot (snowboarding), in addition to Mathilde Gremaud (freeskiing), who narrowly beat Eileen Gu within the ladies’s model of this occasion on Tuesday.