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27 et 28 décembre 2013, 2 superbes journées de kite sur la banquise en face de Rimouski. Le 27 j’ai enregistré avec ma Sony HDR-AS 10 et le 28 avec mon iPhone puisque j’avais oublié ma AS-10 à la maison. La banquise n’a jamais été aussi belle en début de saison depuis 15 ans.
Heading into the men’s ski slopestyle final in Sochi on Thursday afternoon, all four American skiers looked primed to dominate the field. Joss Christensen had topped the pack in the qualifying round, with Nick Goepper and Gus Kenworthy cracking the top five and Bobby Brown bringing up the rear.
Who knew a qualifier could be so prescient?
Team America made history tonight. In a clean sweep secured almost entirely with first runs … More
Telluride, Colorado, with its steeps, backcountry access, and lack of a halfpipe, is better known for breeding mountaineers than park skiers. But for 22-year-old Gus Kenworthy, who snagged the third spot on the men’s Olympic slopestyle ski team for the USA—and was just a few points away from a spot on the halfpipe team, too—growing up in that southern Colorado hub of big-mountain skiing has made him creative, unafraid, and ready to step up to Sochi.
Kenworthy is, by the numbers, the most well-rounded freeskier on the planet. He’s won … More