{"id":799048,"date":"2019-08-30T18:20:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T00:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=370822"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:20:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T00:20:47","slug":"how-to-watch-chris-corning-saturday-at-x-games-norway-snowboard-big-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/how-to-watch-chris-corning-saturday-at-x-games-norway-snowboard-big-air\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch Chris Corning Saturday at X Games Norway snowboard big air"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Corning of Silverthorne looks at his score during the men’s slopestyle qualifying round at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Corning will be the only American snowboarder to compete at Saturday’s X Games Norway big air men’s snowboarding competition.<\/strong>
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FRISCO \u2014 With X Games Norway on deck Saturday, it\u2019s back-to-back big air weekends for high-flying American snowboarder Chris Corning, of Silverthorne.<\/p>\n

Corning, 19, is one of 10 elite international snowboarders slated to compete at Saturday\u2019s big air event at X Games Norway in Oslo.<\/p>\n

The competition comes just days after Corning won last weekend\u2019s first International Ski & Snowboard Federation World Cup event of the season<\/a>, big air snowboarding at the Winter Games New Zealand in Cardrona, New Zealand. Corning, who now splits his time between Summit and Eagle counties, won the competition on the strength of his trademark, groundbreaking quad-cork 1800. Corning is the only snowboarder to ever land the trick, which features four inversions and five, full 360-degree rotations, in a World Cup competition.<\/p>\n

After first landing the trick at last year\u2019s World Cup big air event in Cardrona<\/a>, Corning landed it for the second time in competition at the Winter Games New Zealand, topping the podium with a two-run score of 176.25.<\/p>\n

Corning\u2019s fellow Summit County snowboarder Red Gerard, 19, finished runner-up last weekend at his first big air competition in a year with a score of 161.25. Gerard, who specializes in slopestyle and won the gold medal in the event at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, is not scheduled to compete at X Games on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s big air competition \u2014 which will begin with an elimination round at 5 a.m. local Colorado mountain time before a final round at 10:45 a.m. local mountain time \u2014 includes a who\u2019s who of international heavy hitters. The squad features Japanese daredevil Yuki Kadono and Canadian star Mark McMorris, who won silver at the X Games Aspen big air competition earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Other top riders include stylish Finnish snowboarder Rene Rinnekangas, Norwegian two-time X Games bronze medalist Mons Roisland, Swedish veteran and 2019 X Games Aspen big air bronze medalist Sven Thorgren, nine-time X Games medalist Max Parrot of Canada and popular Norwegian rider Fridtjof \u201cFridge\u201d Tischendorf. On home soil, Norwegians Stian Kleivdal and Markus Olimstad also will compete.<\/p>\n

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