One of our best medal chances at the Beijing Winter Olympics has recovered in Canada. Perrine Laffont, who had yet to win a Mogul Skiing World Cup stage this season, won on Saturday at Mont Tremblant (Canada). An auspicious victory as we approach the most important competition in the approaching discipline. “I am happy, and I am very impatient to go to the Games, it will be a huge event”, declared the Ariégeoise at the microphone of the organizers just following her winning run.
The 23-year-old skier edged Australia’s Jakara Anthony and Japan’s Anri Kawamura, current World Cup leader. She regains the form that escaped her at the right time. On Friday, the Frenchwoman took second place in the first Mont Tremblant event, behind Kawamura.
Victorious in qualifying, Laffont followed with a D-Spin Japan on her first jump and a Cork 720 on her second. In the Super Final, the Ariégeoise showed great amplitude and did it once more with a Cork 720. But the Japanese Kawamura, whose run was not perfect (especially in reception), took first place. She made the difference on her jumps. The other Frenchwoman, Camille Cabrol, finished 26th.
In the men, this Saturday our tricolor Benjamin Cavet took sixth place in the event.
The mogul experts now only have one World Cup weekend left, with events on January 13 and 14 in Deer Valley (Utah, United States), before the Olympic meeting in Beijing (4-20 February).