Yesterday's men's slopestyle final certainly had some highlights, but it was severely curtailed by the weather. Today, brighter skies shone above Aspen and we got our first taste of the slopestyle course in daylight. There was some leftover snow from the night before but the course was running well and the women of slopestyle were sending from the off. We saw two alternates, Kirsty Muir & Olivia Asselin take to the course but they certainly didn't look out of place, challenging for the podium and throwing some of the tricks of the day. Eileen Gu was out injured but lent an air of expertise to proceedings in the booth, which was rad. Overall, it was one of those days where, much like the men, a ton of runs showed promise but most of the riders couldn't put all the pieces together cleanly. Both the men and the women were talking about how tight the course was in the leadup to the event, and in the end, that seemed to prevent a lot of them from stomping their runs.

Run 1:

Kirsty Muir opened proceedings with a banger rail run, with a switch on left k-fed and a big gap 2 continuing 2. The jumps were a little messy but she stomped a full run. Oliva Asselin was oozing steeze and Sarah Hoefflin brought a really technical rail run (both sent disaster 4s up top), but neither made it through the jump sections cleanly. Overall, we saw a lot of the women figuring out the speed and having a couple of issues with the flow. Tess was last to drop and threw a solid rail run (front swap pretz 2, switch left 2 pretz2, switch right 2 to forward) but came up short on the second shark fin and didn't have the speed for the jumps.

Run 2:

The start of run two saw Kirsty Muir try to bring back-to-back dubs to the party but she couldn't quite squeak the right dub 10 around. Sarah Hoefflin was boosting on the shark fins but went almost to flat on the second and her bindings were having none of it. Megan Oldham was oozing confidence and absolutely sent run two (switch left 2 cont 2, front 4, unnaty blind 2, left 270 on to forward, left AO flat 7, left downpipe 9, switch left dub 9 japan, right dub 12), taking the lead, presumably by a margin. The only issue was a slight hand touch on the left 9. Mathilde had some rail hammers on run two, the front swap to back swap on the rainbow was sick, but her trademark bio 9 deserted her. Tess crushed the rails again but couldn't get the speed right.

Run 3:

Olivia Asselin had a handful of small bobbles in her rails section, but sent a right 9 to the moon on the final jump, opened up, and stomped the shit out of it. The run was a scratch but that was HUGE. It's hard to say with the lack of scoring, but Megan Oldham seemed to clean up her run slightly compared to run two. Exactly the same tricks, but maybe a smidge cleaner overall. Johanne Killi, already provisional third with a slightly sketch run two put it all down until the bottom (back swap front two on the elbow was sick), but just toppled on a final hit switch dub 10.

Run 4:

Kirsty Muir went so close. Perfect, technical rails, put the right dub 10 down but had to open up on the final jump, after a slightly backseat landing on the 10. Sarah Hoefflin had the same fate, solid until the landing of the penultimate jump, slight bobble, and then had the wrong speed for the final booter. Megan Oldham stomped a third time in a row, and on that alone, clearly deserved the win today. 3 athletes were gunning for that top spot left to come. Johanne went down on the switch dub 10 again, but Mathilde put one down. It wasn't perfect but it was solid (front swap backswap on the rainbow, left 2 cont 2, switch 2 to forward, left 7 tail, right bio 9 safety, switch 5 (opened up), dub 10 safety. Enough for second on the day. It wouldn't work for Tess Ledeux today, leaving Kirsy Muir with the bronze and Megan Oldham with a dominant win.

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