VANCOUVER – Freestyle Canada unveiled the athletes that have been provisionally nominated to Team Canada for the 2018 Winter Games thanks to their 2016-2017 season results. Consequently, mogul skiers Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Andi Naude and Mikaël Kingsbury should all be headed to PyeongChang next February, as they have all met the “Method A” selection criteria. “I am…
Mammoth, CA – The 2016 Visa U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain was plagued by poor weather conditions, but that did not prevent Whistler slopestyle skier Yuki Tsubota from winning her first World Cup. « It was a very long day but I couldn’t have hoped for a better ending », said Yuki Tsubota. «…
At only 19 years of age, Andi Naude has already made herself known on the World Cup circuit after finishing 5th overall during the 2014-2015 season. As the only mogul skier out of the West Coast on both the women’s and men’s World Cup teams, Naude takes pride in representing Western Canada. “It’s really an…
Whistler, BC – A trying year due to injuries finished on a high note for slopestyle skiers Yuki Tsubota (Whistler, BC) and Kim Lamarre (Lac-Beauport, QC) after finishing first (80.5) and third (74.0), respectively, at the AFP World Tour Finals presented by the World Ski and Snowboard Festival in Whistler, BC. Competing at Blackomb Ski…
Apex, BC – Under sparkling blue skies, Canada’s best mogul skiers took to the Apex slopes for Canadian Senior National Championships this weekend. Andi Naude, of Pentiction BC, defeated Olympian Audrey Robichaud (Quebec City, QC) to take home the Gold Medal and the right to be named 2014 Canadian Woman’s Singles Mogul Champion. In third…
Park City, UT – As the dumping snow that shrouded qualifications gave way to clearing skies and some gusty winds, the first event of the action-packed FIS Freestyle Deer Valley World Cup weekend took to the famed Utah resort’s Champion run for a bright night of moguls competition. While the cast of last week’s podium…