Sochi started with slopestyle where they go on a course with
jumps and they have to slide across the rails and at the end there is a judge’s
score. They are trying to do things in the air that I find to be very
impressive. In some of the heats things did go a lot wrong as they seemed to
have lost their balance. Some of the individuals want to play a tactical game
and not run a second run believing that they will get there.
23 racers go into each heat with the top 4 from a heat
qualifying automatically while the others go into a semi final of which 4 from them 17 in both heats go into
the final. In the first women’s semi final Kersti Balas of Norway had a bad
fall as she jumped of a rail and it looked horrible when she had made contact.
Also Enri Nokarvi of Finland made hard contact on the shoulder and the back and
should be happy to be standing with the impact that she has had
In a men’s heat Stall Sandbech of Norway won his heat
followed by Peetu Piiroinen of Finland and Sebastien Toutant of Canada in third
and just qualifying was Jamie Nickolas of Great Britain.
Maxine Parrot of Canada won the heat followed by Roope
Tonteri of Finland and Sven Thorgren of Sweden and lucky to qualify were
Germund Braaten of Norway
In first place in the women’s and looking stylish was Isabel Derungs of
Swizerland in second place and looking confortable was Austrias Anna Gasser in
third was Tora Bright of Austria and a very lucky Jamie Anderson of the USA who
did not take her run finished in fourth
The freestyle skiing women’s moguls was brilliant to watch
as they have to down a very bumpy hill moving from bump to bump there are a lot
of them and there are two jumps that they have to put skills in. It is brilliant
seeing the choices in the bumps that they make.
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