{"id":1380721,"date":"2018-12-04T19:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/chloe-kim-david-wise-among-130-of-worlds-halfpipe-elite-to-attend-copper-mountain-grand-prix\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T19:20:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T02:20:18","slug":"chloe-kim-david-wise-among-130-of-worlds-halfpipe-elite-to-attend-copper-mountain-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/chloe-kim-david-wise-among-130-of-worlds-halfpipe-elite-to-attend-copper-mountain-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Chloe Kim, David Wise among 130 of world\u2019s halfpipe elite to attend Copper Mountain Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Antonio Olivero, Summit Daily News<\/a><\/span> At Copper Mountain Resort this week, the world’s best halfpipe freeski and snowboard stars will drop in to commence the 2018-19 International Ski & Snowboard Federation World Cup halfpipe season.
\nWednesday and Thursday’s qualifying rounds will see a confluence of 139 of the world’s top men and women’s freeski and snowboard athletes, including household Olympic champion names such as Chloe Kim and David Wise, local up-and-coming teens such as Chase Blackwell and Jaxin Hoerter and international sensations like Australia’s Scotty James and Switzerland’s Iouri \u201cI-Pod\u201d Podladtchikov. It’ll be the 2014 Sochi halfpipe gold medalist Podladtchikov’s first World Cup event since his nasty spill on the X Games Aspen halfpipe last January, which forced him out of the ensuing month’s Olympics.
\nAfter shocking the snowboarding scene with his surprise Dew Tour superpipe championship last December \u2014 which propelled him to Pyeongchang Olympic qualification \u2014 local High Country snowboarder Jake Pates figures to challenge James, I-Pod and Japanese star Raibu Katayama at the top of the men’s halfpipe leaderboard during Thursday’s qualifying round and Saturday’s final round.
\n\u201cI am really excited for this season of events to start up,\u201d Eagle-Vail resident Pates said in a statement. \u201cHeading to Copper Mountain is the perfect way to kick it off. Mainly, I’m just excited to link up with all of my teammates to ride and have a good time.\u201d
\nWise is the headline name for the U.S. squad heading into Wednesday’s freeski qualifiers (8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) at Copper. The Reno, Nevada-based, two-time Olympic halfpipe gold medalist Wise, though, figures to be challenged by Pyeongchang halfpipe silver medalist Alex Ferreira of Aspen and 2017 International Ski Federation World Champion Aaron Blunck of Crested Butte.
\nOn the women’s freeski side, the Olympic medalists who will compete for the Grand Prix championship include an American contingent led by Brita Sigourney of Carmel, California, Maddie Bowman of South Lake Tahoe, California, and Devin Logan of West Dover, Vermont. American skier Annalisa Drew of Andover, Massachusetts, also is expected to attempt one of the more technical runs in the 27-skier women’s halfpipe freeskiing competition. The final round of the freeski competition is scheduled for Friday from 11 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.
\n\u201cDefinitely excited to kick off the season and get back in the pipe,\u201d Sigourney said in a statement. \u201cIt’s been a relaxing post-Olympic break and I’m mostly looking forward to focusing on having fun this year. My goal for Copper is to pick up where I left off last year, I would be really happy with that.\u201d
\nTaking the victory on home snow will be tough for the Americans, however, as the reigning women’s halfpipe Olympic champion from Pyeongchang, Canada’s Cassie Sharpe, is scheduled to compete.
\n\u201cWith all the early season snow Copper has received, conditions will be excellent and will make for a great contest,\u201d U.S. Freeski Halfpipe Pro Team head coach Andrew Woods said in a statement. \u201cEach year, Copper gives athletes the first opportunity to show off their hard work over the summer. For the first time, they will be taking …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

Via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Copper Mountain Resort this week, the world’s best halfpipe freeski and snowboard stars will drop in to commence the 2018-19 International Ski & Snowboard Federation World Cup halfpipe season.
\nWednesday and Thursday’s qualifying rounds will see a confluence of 139 of the world’s top men and women’s freeski and snowboard athletes, including household Olympic champion names such as Chloe Kim and David Wise, local up-and-coming teens such as Chase Blackwell and Jaxin Hoerter and international sensations like Australia’s Scotty James and Switzerland’s Iouri \u201cI-Pod\u201d Podladtchikov. It’ll be the 2014 Sochi halfpipe gold medalist Podladtchikov’s first World Cup event since his nasty spill on the X Games Aspen halfpipe last January, which forced him out of the ensuing month’s Olympics.
\nAfter shocking the snowboarding scene with his surprise Dew Tour superpipe championship last December \u2014 which propelled him to Pyeongchang Olympic qualification \u2014 local High Country snowboarder Jake Pates figures to challenge James, I-Pod and Japanese star Raibu Katayama at the top of the men’s halfpipe leaderboard during Thursday’s qualifying round and Saturday’s final round.
\n\u201cI am really excited for this season of events to start up,\u201d Eagle-Vail resident Pates said in a statement. \u201cHeading to Copper Mountain is the perfect way to kick it off. Mainly, I’m just excited to link up with all of my teammates to ride and have a good time.\u201d
\nWise is the headline name for the U.S. squad heading into Wednesday’s freeski qualifiers (8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) at Copper. The Reno, Nevada-based, two-time Olympic halfpipe gold medalist Wise, though, figures to be challenged by Pyeongchang halfpipe silver medalist Alex Ferreira of Aspen and 2017 International Ski Federation World Champion Aaron Blunck of Crested Butte.
\nOn the women’s freeski side, the Olympic medalists who will compete for the Grand Prix championship include an American contingent led by Brita Sigourney of Carmel, California, Maddie Bowman of South Lake Tahoe, California, and Devin Logan of West Dover, Vermont. American skier Annalisa Drew of Andover, Massachusetts, also is expected to attempt one of the more technical runs in the 27-skier women’s halfpipe freeskiing competition. The final round of the freeski competition is scheduled for Friday from 11 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.
\n\u201cDefinitely excited to kick off the season and get back in the pipe,\u201d Sigourney said in a statement. \u201cIt’s been a relaxing post-Olympic break and I’m mostly looking forward to focusing on having fun this year. My goal for Copper is to pick up where I left off last year, I would be really happy with that.\u201d
\nTaking the victory on home snow will be tough for the Americans, however, as the reigning women’s halfpipe Olympic champion from Pyeongchang, Canada’s Cassie Sharpe, is scheduled to compete.
\n\u201cWith all the early season snow Copper has received, conditions will be excellent and will make for a great contest,\u201d U.S. Freeski Halfpipe Pro Team head coach Andrew Woods said in a statement. \u201cEach year, Copper gives athletes the first opportunity to show off their hard work over the summer. For the first time, they will be taking …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1380721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 01:23:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}