Olympic gold medalists Alex Hall, Eileen Gu, David Wise and Red Gerrard will headline this weekend’s Toyota U.S. Grand Prix and Visa Big Air snowboard and freeski finals at Copper Mountain, Colorado. serve.
Highlights from Friday and Saturday’s finals will air Sunday at 1:30pm ET on CNBC (Big Air) and 4:30pm ET on NBC (Halfpipe). All coverage will also be streamed on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app for subscribers of those channels. peacock.
Hall, who won gold medal in ski slopestyle at the Olympics last year, is a member of men’s big air, including the reigning big air champion at the Olympics (Norway’s Birk Ruud), World Championships (Troy Podmirsak of the United States) and X Games (American Mack Forehand). leading the field. .
Olympic silver and bronze medalists Tess Ledoux (France) and Mathilde Gremaud (Switzerland) in the women’s ski big air pit.
China’s Gu, who swept the big ski halfpipe and air titles at the Olympics, is competing fiercely in the pipe at the copper competition. Last winter, she suffered a season-ending knee injury in a fall during training in January before the X Games.
Gu, whose last loss at Pipe was in March 2021, faces a Copper field that includes reigning world champion American Hannah Faulhaber and reigning X Games winner Britt Zoe Atkin.
Copper’s men’s ski halfpipe arena features two-time Olympic champion David Wise, two-time Olympic medalist Alex Ferreira, and three-time Olympic ski slopestyle medalist who switched to pipe this year. The team is full of talented American players, including Nick Goepper.
In snowboarding, 2018 Olympic slopestyle champion Red Gerard will advance to the men’s big air final, where he will face three-time X Games champion Marcus Cleveland of Norway. Olympic gold medalist Su Yiming (China) was eliminated from the preliminary round.
In women’s big air, there is Olympic slopestyle silver medalist Julia Marino of the United States. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Anna Gasser of Austria did not compete at Copper after competing in Edmonton last week.
The men’s halfpipe is being touted as another showdown between Olympic gold and silver medalists Ayumu Hirano of Japan and Scottie James of Australia.
South Korea’s Gaon Choi, who broke Chloe Kim’s record as the youngest X Games snowboard halfpipe champion at the age of 14 last January, leads the women’s field. Olympic silver medalist Queralt Castellet of Spain and American Olympian Madi Mastro also made it to the finals.
Kim Byung-hyun is scheduled to return to competition in January for the first time since being re-elected as Olympic champion.
