James Woods wins slopestyle silver at ski World Championships

James Woods has won Great Britain's first freestyle skiing medal at a World Championships in 20 years after winning slopestyle silver in Norway.

The 21-year-old was given a score of 91.2 to place him second behind American Thomas Wallisch.

In the women's event, Britain's Katie Summerhayes finished outside the medals in fourth place with a score of 72.2.

Slopestyle where snowboarders and skiers are judged on tricks, will be a new event at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

"I'm absolutely thrilled," Woods told BBC Sport.

"To do those tricks you have to be really bang on, and I feel like my second run was pretty close to it."

The bronze medal in the men's event was taken by American Nicholas Goepper in Voss-Myrkdalen.

The women's gold medal was won by Canadian Kaya Turski, who scored 89.6, with compatriot Dara Howell taking silver and American Grete Eliassen collecting bronze.

Summerhayes, who describes Woods as her best friend, has already qualified for next year's Winter Olympics as she continues to hit form on her comeback from a knee injury.

"There is no happier coach in the world at the moment," said Britain's freestyle skiing coach Pat Sharples.

"James produced an absolutely brilliant run to take silver, and what Katie has achieved so soon after coming back from injury has been amazing.

"The team is in a great place at the moment. There is a lot more work to do but we are in the best position to smash it heading into the Olympic season in 2014."

American skier Vonn released from hospital and ready to travel home for surgery after horror crash

American skier Lindsey Vonn will head home for surgery next week after tearing two ligaments in her right knee and breaking a bone in her lower leg in a crash at the world championships. 

U.S. Ski Team physician William Sterett was with Vonn on the snow after the crash on Tuesday, then at a Schladming hospital where she was airlifted to. 

‘She’ll be heading back to Vail (Colorado) and I will be doing surgery on her knee early next week,’ Sterett told The Associated Press on Wednesday. 

Crash: American skier Lindsey Vonn was airlifted to hospital after a horror crash in the women's Super G race at the World Alpine Skiing Championships in Schladming, Austria this afternoon

Speed: Vonn lost balance on her right leg while jumping and her ski flew off straight away. She appeared to land on her right knee

Airlift: Vonn received 12 minutes of treatment on the slopes before being taken away by helicopter

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2274369/Lindsey-Vonn-need-surgery-horror-ski-crash-Austria.html#ixzz2KDhbant0 

 

Great Britain's top slopestyle skier James Woods won bronze at the X Games. 

 

Woods, 21, from Sheffield qualified for the final in first place but was beaten by American Nick Goepper and Sweden's Henrik Harlaut in Sunday's showdown.

Woods was second behind Goepper after two of the three runs in Aspen, Colorado, with a best score of 91.33.

But Harlaut moved up into the silver medal after a 92.66 in his final run, with Woods only able to score 92.00 while Goepper won with 94.00.

The Briton, who has won the first two World Cups of the season, is one of the medal favourites in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, where slopestyle will make its Olympic debut.

The sport sees skiers and snowboarders judged on the speed and execution of the tricks they perform on jumps, rails and boxes.

Woods won his second consecutive ski slopestyle World Cup in Colorado earlier this month, gathering enough points to all-but secure Team GB one of the four available spots at Sochi.

SNOWBOARDING

Aimee Fuller was the only British woman invited to compete in the X Games and she could only manage eighth place in the snowboard slopestyle final on Buttermilk Mountain on Saturday.

Britain's experienced snowboard cross racer Zoe Gillings was also in action on Saturday at the World Championships at Stoneham in Canada. She finished 10th after just missing out in qualifying for the final, hampered by riders falling in front of her.

BOBSLEIGH & SKELETON

At the World Championships in St Moritz, Switzerland, Great Britain secured three team places for the first time in the women's race. All finished in the top 20, with former junior world champion Paula Walker, who was hampered by a knee injury, the highest placed in 14th.

In the men's two-man, John Jackson and Craig Pickering were 19th. Britain came seventh in the team event which saw Kristan Bromley, Lizzy Yarnold, Walker and Jackson each complete a run of the track. Afterwards Yarnold tweeted: "Here are the team race results. Seventh place for GB1- so proud! 12 skeleton athletes and I slid the second fastest time!"

ICE SKATING

British ice dance duo Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland recorded their best result, finishing fifth at the European Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. The duo, coached by Russian Evgeni Platov, the 1994 and 1998 Olympic ice dance champion, scored 152.95 points.

 

 

source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-sports/21210022

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Asia's Biggest Ski Resort is coming! 

 CHANGCHUN - Asia's largest ski resort is expected to open by the end of the year on Changbai Mountain in Northeast China's Jilin province, according to local authorities.

 Covering an area of seven square kilometers, the resort has 43 ski runs totalling 30 kilometers and can accommodate 8,000 skiers at a time, said Chen Weigen, vice-governor of Jilin. 

 The resort is part of the Changbai Mountain international holiday resort. The first phase of the project, which includes five-star hotels, a resort town and a cultural center, started operating in late July after three years of construction. Six Chinese private companies have invested 20 billion yuan ($3.16 billion) in the project.

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