fis world cup

Kelly Clark Wins World Cup Halfpipe at Cypress

Kelly Clark took first place at the FIS World Cup event at Cypress Mountain in British Columbia. This is the future site of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

US Women Sweep World Cup Halfpipe in Italy

Kelly Clark, Hannah Teter and Gretchen Bleiler returned to the site of the 2006 Winter Olympics halfpipe competition for a FIS World Cup Event. This time the results were a little different.

Janne Korpi and Jiayu Liu win FIS halfpipe contest in Saas-Fee

Finland’s Janne Korpi and Jiayu Liu from China have won the second halfpipe contest of the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup 2009.

So Saturday saw London host its first ever FIS World Cup big air contest. And the locals were out in force to watch it – tickets were sold out as 10,000 people headed to the grounds of the coolest building in London, Battersea Power Station, to watch the snowboard action and a decent line-up of bands.

You could see the jump from miles around – the rig apparently being the one also used for the Air & Style contest in Germany. It was so tall (35 metres to be precise) that the riders had a lift to get them to the top. It got pretty windy at the bottom so I dread to think what it was like up at the top.

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