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Freestyle Skiing Big Air	Shougang Park

Freeskier sets off down huge ramp and launches into air to perform epic trick, such as double or triple cork


Birk Ruud (Nor), top of World Cup standings

This is new Olympic event, making its debut in Beijing

Freeskier gets three jumps, with each one judged on: Amplitude, Difficulty, Execution and Landing

Shougang Park – world’s first permanent Big Air structure, built on site of former steel mill


Drop: 51.5m

Venue built from 2018-2019

Kicker ramp

Judges Stand 
Panel of six judges evaluates each run

Safety net

Outrun

160m


SCORING
Judges score runs between 1 and 100. Highest and lowest scores discarded, and remaining four averaged out to give final score

Performing more rotations and unique grabs will score more highly, as will landing cleanly


WORLD CUP STANDINGS 
Birk Ruud (NOR) 	Giulia Tanno (SUI)
Antoine Adelisse (FRA)	Tess Ledeux (FRA)
Oliwer Magnusson (SWE) 	Kelly Sildaru (EST)


Sources: Beijing 2022, FIS, NBC
Original picture: Getty Images
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