Sun and high heat in large parts of the country, but at the national border, the first weeks of summer have been filled with world-class snowboarding. Corona pandemic has kept Sweden's foremost snowboard rider, Sven Thorgren, at home and a large part of the time has been spent at a specially built snowboard park at the national border.
- There is a lot of history with snowboarding at the national border and we managed to get this together without any professional park builders. We built this by hand and with an excavator and we struggled hard to get it, he tells SVT Sport.
After two years of work with the movie "Scandalnavia" wanted, the big finale would be recorded with the ambition to become the world's first to put a "triple chuk flip". An advanced maneuver that involves three straight back volts with rotation and landing in a strong downward slope. After many over and over with knee injuries and blizzards, the dream finally became a reality after four attempts.
- It was a lot more scary than I thought. After many attempts, I put it in the end and it was an incredible relief. I felt a lot of pressure when I said I would make a "worlds first," Thorgren tells SVT Sport.
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