Paris (AFP)
American snowboarder Chris Corning won the Big Air snowboard crystal globe on the night of Friday to Saturday in Atlanta (USA) thanks to a figure that he was the first to succeed in competition.
Corning (20) successfully completed one, four back somersaults, spinning five times while holding his board.
This feat allowed him to win the Atlanta test in front of the Canadian Nicolas Laframboise and to glean the second Big Air crystal globe of his career (after 2018) in the stadium which usually hosts the baseball team of the "Atlanta Braves". Chris Corning thus completes his record in freestyle (three globes and a title of world champion in slopestyle snowboard).
In the women's category, the Japanese Reira Iwabuchi (18) won the competition and a second consecutive globe.
Discipline noted from a jump made from a huge springboard, the Big Air has been Olympic since the Pyeongchang Games in 2018 and had programmed its World Cup calendar very early (from the end of August to the end of December), the "riders" concentrating then on the slopestyle (succession of figures on a course), also Olympic.
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