{"id":804001,"date":"2020-02-09T14:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378804"},"modified":"2020-02-09T14:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T21:24:05","slug":"canadas-noah-bowman-wins-wild-dew-tour-ski-modified-pipe-contest-on-final-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/canadas-noah-bowman-wins-wild-dew-tour-ski-modified-pipe-contest-on-final-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Noah Bowman wins wild Dew Tour ski modified pipe contest on final run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noah Bowman places first in the men\u2019s ski modified superpipe final Sunday, Feb. 9, at Dew Tour at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/strong>
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COPPER MOUNTAIN \u2014 It was a wild men\u2019s ski modified superpipe competition at Dew Tour\u2019s final day Sunday, complete with broken bindings and skis coming undone on landings.<\/p>\n

In the end, Canadian 27-year-old Noah Bowman won with a 95-point score on his third and final run to leapfrog Gus Kenworthy of Telluride for first place. Bowman\u2019s run stood out for its huge vertical amplitude and massive distance he traveled in the air down the pipe.<\/p>\n

Bowman transitioned from the modified portion of the course to the traditional pipe with a forward diving flare 540. He then boosted backward to ski switch into the pipe, where he landed a pair of switch double-cork variations with an alley-oop double 900.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve really been trying to do my own thing within the realm of what we could push,\u201d Bowman said about the inventive switch-heavy run he skied. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more hype. This is a dream come true. Honestly, a dream come true. \u2026 I think I just like to try to do something a little different. When I see forward tricks, it makes me want to do switch stuff.<\/p>\n

Kenworthy, an American Olympic medalist who now rides for Great Britain, had a redemptive day in the pipe after struggling Saturday on the slopestyle course. Despite his recent struggles in big events like Dew Tour, the 28-year-old grabbed command of the competition early with an 84.66 as the first skier to drop into the pipe. That put him in second place going into his second run.<\/p>\n

On that second run, Kenworthy sent it even bigger, earning a 92.66 and landing in first place with a run through the pipe that included an alley-oop flat spin in the modified portion of the course before a right-side 1080 and a soaring switch 1260 at the bottom of pipe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really, really stoked,\u201d Kenworthy said. \u201cI just wanted to put one down first run and hopefully gain some momentum. \u2026 Honestly, I did everything I could. I\u2019m happy with my performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young Nico Porteous of New Zealand finished in third with a score of 88 on his first run that was powered by a huge, powerful 1440 on the quarter-pipe transition hit that flows from the modified portion of the course into the traditional pipe.<\/p>\n

Birk Irving, 20, of Winter Park, was the top-scoring American on the day with an 87.33 on his final run through the pipe. On that run, Irving laced a line that featured an alley-oop flat-spin 540 on the first modified feature into an impressive double-cork 1260 on the side-hit transition waterfalling into the pipe portion of the course. In the pipe, Irving landed his trademark double flat-spin 720 switch before executing a 900.<\/p>\n

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