Hello everyone and welcome to
the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
from Deer Valley and in today's program
we have all the action from the men's and women's halfpipe competition.
The halfpipe, the PC Superpipe is 182 metres long,
19 metres wide and the wall height is five and a half metres.
it wasn't that cold but the tricky conditions meant that
some athletes had to downgrade their runs.
Let's have a look at the ladies' start list.
There are twelve skiers in this event
and one of the skiers to look out for is Ros G
who went at bib number nine.
Well here is Ros G for her first run.
The current leader is at 37 points,
but everyone is wrapped up against
these miserable conditions as she drops in ¡­
Pundit:
It is tough with the flat light and the wind,
ten metres per second.
Big big air, set herself up for a right side 9,
she is not scaling back her tricks,
maybe not going as big as she wants to ¡­
Into a left side 540, straight into a right 540.
What a technical run!
Going into a 360, setting herself up for a switch 540
and lands the switch, straight in front of the judges,
what a run from Ros G!
Commentator:
Ros G, has a little point as she finishes.
Sarah Burke from Canada currently leads the way on 37,
I think Ros G has got a better run here,
we'll have to wait and see ¡­
and indeed she is into first place, 43.9 for the Canadian.
Pundit:
She didn't let the flat light or the wind affect her.
The problem with that wind is,
you are looking at about two feet of transition that
you want to land upon and if that wind kind of throws you
about a half a foot inside the pipe you can land flat
or you can land on the knuckle.
Commentator:
Yeah, and that is not a good place to land.
So, another Canadian about to drop in ¨C
Keltie Hansen ¨C needs to beat 43.9.
That is a big score and I'm not sure in these conditions
whether or not we will see that beaten,
we'll have to wait and see.
Pundit:
Well Keltie just doesn't do the switch tricks that Ros G. does,
but she does have some big rotations.
And there she starts off with a right side 540,
straight into a left 540, nice and clean, not as big as Ros G...
setting herself up for a left side 5.