Nike ACG Team Blog : News from the snowbard team

what an event. its been non stop action for the last couple of days which is why I am a bit behind with the blog. On Thursday night was the mens superpipe final and Andreas was representing. Things were looking great as he was sitting in first after the first run but dropped to second on the second as Tanner Hall came down. Dumont then landed a monsterous run run which started with a 21ft 540 but it was technical enough to overtake Tanner. It was looking certain that Andreas was going to finish on the podium with only a couple of riders left to go but much to my surprise Colby West just pipped Andreas' score to take third - I was not sure that I agreed with this - and Andreas was gutted once again to finish 4th in the superpipe. considering Andreas only did 4 days of pipe riding before the event its a great  result but in all honesty 4th place sucks so hopefully next year he is going to nail it.

Last night was the womens superpipe and Mirjam had qualified in 3rd place so we had our fingers crossed. The guys at Durrance sports were tuning her skis to perfection to give her all the help she needed and it worked, Mirjam took SILVER with a great run which included back to back 5's (natural and unnatural) - she was the only rider in the comp to spin unnatural. It was fantastic to see her doing so well in a world class field and she is just continuing her run of podiums around the world.

Yesterday was also the skier-X and boarder-X qualifications and both Zoe and Thomas got through, Zone in 3rd and Thomas in 9th so it is all go for the next rounds today and tomorrow.

Tonight is the men's superpipe elimination so I will let you know how Gary gets on soon.

Oh and Thomas is hanging around as well (with PK and Kris in this case), he is not riding until sunday in the slopestyle but he is on good form.