It was a testing morning for the Men’s Aerial Qualification, with light swirling winds and snow making in-run speed and visibility challenging. However, with the heavy snow in recent days the landing hill was soft, making it safe for the field to pull out some of their bigger and more spectacular jumps.
Swiss jumper Pirmin Werner won the first round of qualification, delivering a near perfect quad twisting triple back flip scoring 122.17 points. The biggest jump in qualifying came in the second round when Chinese jumper Tianma Li performed a quin twisting triple back with the highest degree of difficulty of the morning, winning the round with a huge 127.50 points.
For the Australians, the men’s team is in the process of building strong talent for the future of the sport. At these Games, 21-year-old
Reilly Flanagan
was gaining valuable insight into competing in an Olympic field and the pressures of the Games. Flanagan is targeting the French Alps Games and is still in the process of building up his degree of difficulty for 2030.
An elite gymnast before he transitioning to aerial skiing, Flanagan was excited to finally become an Olympian and is pleased with his decision to switch sports.
“It's a dream come true. I’ve dreamt about being an Olympian for my whole life,” the Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder said.
“I’ve no regrets changing over from the gymnastics to aerials now. No, none at all and I’m looking forward to shoot for my next Games.”
As part of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia program, Flanagan trains at the Geoff Henke Winter Olympic Training Centre in Brisbane and is keen to get back to the water jump facility there so he can continue to push up his degree of difficulty.
“So, we'll have a little break after the Olympics, and then we'll get back into bit of strength and conditioning at home, and then straight back into the water ramping.
“After this is all done and dusted, I'll be very, very ready to go back to work and push the DD to get better every day.”
Flanagan put down two solid jumps in qualifying, a triple twisting double back and a double twisting double back scoring 74.02 and 87.57 respectively, finishing 20th overall.
The final event on the aerials program is the Mixed Team event.
Team officials announced yesterday that Flanagan will be joined by fellow Snow Australia athletes Abbey Willcox and Olympic silver medallist Danielle Scott to take on the world’s best in this event.
It will be the first time that Australia has had a team in the Mixed Aerials event and will again add to Flanagan’s experience at these Games.
“Well, we don't have quite the same difficulty across the board as the other teams,” said Flanagan. “But look, anything can happen in the team events, so we just need to put down the best jumps we can and just be as clean as possible and land our jumps.”
Swiss jumper Pirmin Werner won the first round of qualification, delivering a near perfect quad twisting triple back flip scoring 122.17 points. The biggest jump in qualifying came in the second round when Chinese jumper Tianma Li performed a quin twisting triple back with the highest degree of difficulty of the morning, winning the round with a huge 127.50 points.
For the Australians, the men’s team is in the process of building strong talent for the future of the sport. At these Games, 21-year-old
Reilly Flanagan
was gaining valuable insight into competing in an Olympic field and the pressures of the Games. Flanagan is targeting the French Alps Games and is still in the process of building up his degree of difficulty for 2030.
An elite gymnast before he transitioning to aerial skiing, Flanagan was excited to finally become an Olympian and is pleased with his decision to switch sports.
“It's a dream come true. I’ve dreamt about being an Olympian for my whole life,” the Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder said.
“I’ve no regrets changing over from the gymnastics to aerials now. No, none at all and I’m looking forward to shoot for my next Games.”
As part of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia program, Flanagan trains at the Geoff Henke Winter Olympic Training Centre in Brisbane and is keen to get back to the water jump facility there so he can continue to push up his degree of difficulty.
“So, we'll have a little break after the Olympics, and then we'll get back into bit of strength and conditioning at home, and then straight back into the water ramping.
“After this is all done and dusted, I'll be very, very ready to go back to work and push the DD to get better every day.”
Flanagan put down two solid jumps in qualifying, a triple twisting double back and a double twisting double back scoring 74.02 and 87.57 respectively, finishing 20th overall.
The final event on the aerials program is the Mixed Team event.
Team officials announced yesterday that Flanagan will be joined by fellow Snow Australia athletes Abbey Willcox and Olympic silver medallist Danielle Scott to take on the world’s best in this event.
It will be the first time that Australia has had a team in the Mixed Aerials event and will again add to Flanagan’s experience at these Games.
“Well, we don't have quite the same difficulty across the board as the other teams,” said Flanagan. “But look, anything can happen in the team events, so we just need to put down the best jumps we can and just be as clean as possible and land our jumps.”
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