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He first became recognized at the X Games when he was fifteen. At sixteen he competed in Honda Sessions at Vail Resort in Colorado. At seventeen, he won his first gold medals. At age eighteen, he was badly injured in a failed jump at Park City. The video of that crash – he plummets eighty feet to the ground – became an internet phenomenon.
Gus Kenworthy, now skiing for Great Britain, mis-aligned a jump and hit the halfpipe wall so hard he shattered the cornice. Switzerland’s Robin Briguet fell on a windblown trick and raised his ...
Sarah Jean Burke [1] (September 3, 1982 – January 19, 2012) was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. [2] [3] She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005.
Half-pipe skiing is the sport of riding snow skis on a half-pipe. Competitors perform a series of tricks while going down the pipe. Competitors perform a series of tricks while going down the pipe. The current world record for highest jump in a half-pipe is held by Joffrey Pollet-Villard , with 26 feet 3 inches (8.00 metres). [ 1 ]
During the men’s halfpipe finals, Japanese snowboarder Yuto Totsuka violently crashed while attempting to land a big-air trick, propelling his body headfirst into the snow.
U.S. skier Nina O’Brien suffers scary crash. Henry Bushnell. February 7, 2022 at 3:28 AM ... O’Brien, though, was not only “alert and responsive,” according to a U.S. ski team spokeswoman ...
Joel Gisler (born 25 February 1994 in Bürglen) is a Swiss freestyle skier, specializing in halfpipe. [1] Gisler competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Switzerland. He placed 18th in the qualifying round in the halfpipe, failing to advance. [2] [3] Gisler made his World Cup debut in March 2011.
American David Wise won his third straight Olympic medal in the freeski halfpipe with his second-place finish in Beijing. Fellow U.S. skier Alex Fereirra took bronze.