Team GB Success at the Olympic Test Event!
GB Park and Pipe’s Katie Ormerod continued her run of amazing results with a fourth place in Saturday’s Snowboard Slopestyle at the World Cup and Olympic Test event in PyeongChang.
With the competition being affected by windy conditions, it wasn’t easy for any of the competitors, but Katie put in two runs to put her fourth behind Jamie Anderson, Carly Shorr and Christy Prior. Earlier in the week, after a fresh falling of snow, Jamie Nicholls just missed out on finals with 12th place, and Billy Morgan 22nd. In the Ladies qualifiers Aimee Fuller finished a great 7th place, just missing out on finals at the Olympic Test Event.
Katie Summerhayes qualified into the Ski Slopestyle finals in second place just behind Tiril Sjåstad Christiansen. In the finals she kept her rail line the same as qualifying with a blind 2 out of the top rail and then front 4 out of the down flat down but she upped her jumps by adding a switch right 9 japan to left 360 tail grab and then into the 900 on the bottom jump. She put down 3 solid runs but not quite as clean as she hoped which lost her points. In the end Katie took 6th place which she's incredibly happy with as it was certainly one of the toughest finals of the year so far. Tiril Sjåstad Christiansen took the win followed by Maggie Voisin in 2nd and emma dahlstrom in 3rd, 4th Dara Howell, 5th Yuki Tsubota and Katie Summerhayes in 6th. Isabel Atkin took 7th which is another incredibly great result for her and once again showing her consistency.
In the Men’s Ski Slopestyle, James Woods finished 10th in his qualifiers heat, finishing in 16th overall and team mate Tyler Harding finishing 22nd in his qualifiers heat. Gold and Silver went to Norway, with Felix Stridsberg-Usterud and Oystein Braaten respectively followed by Fabien Boesch from Switzerland.
The Olympic Test Event had good reviews and the countdown to 2018 is well and truly on!
This week sees the first ever X Games in Oslo, with James Woods and Billy Morgan taking part. The X Games start on Wednesday, with Billy and Woodsy in action on Friday for the heats in Snowboard and Ski Big Air.
Winter Youth Olympic Games
The action at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer came to a conclusion yesterday.
Golden Girl, Madi Rowlands impressed again on Friday this time in the Ski Slopestyle, taking a Bronze medal to accompany her Gold from Ski Halfpipe earlier in the week. Rowlands scored 67.20 and 67.80 in her two runs and said after the event:
“I feel so happy at the moment because I didn’t expect it all. I haven’t been on the podium much in my career so it’s definitely that extra bit more special.
“To be honest I didn’t really know what position I was in at the top of the second run. I like to stay relaxed and don’t really get nervous. I guess that helps in this sport.”
Cal Sandieson also got a chance to shine, putting in an amazing performance on the Slopestyle Course to finish in fourth place.
Both Iain Innes and Yasmin Cooper had some strong results in the Alpine disciplines, with Iain Innes rounding off the week with a 20th place finish in the Slalom. This followed his 17th place in the GS and 32nd in Super G earlier in the week. Cooper also finished 20th in the Slalom, after an amazing 13th in Alpine Combined and 19th in Super G.
Watch Jenny Jones catching with the YOG athletes in Lillehammer on Ski Sunday available on BBC iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006v8fc
British Ski Cross
Fresh from her 12th at Idre Ski Cross World Cup, British racer Emily Sarsfield will next be in action on Friday at the World Cup and Olympic Ski Cross test event in PyeongChang.
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