Zongyang Jia (CHN) loses control of his landing, but then spectacularly gains control of it again.
They got into the finals, but then they kissed snow on their landing. Luckily they all walked away ok.
Travis Gerrits (CAN) survives the Chinese assault on the podium with three jumps to take 2nd place as Jia and Liu fail to score over 100 points in their final jump.
Veronika Korsunova (RUS) scores a 87.73 on her first jump and naps her first World Championship medal.
Mengao Xu (CHN) finally wins the title, the only woman to score over 90 points, 98.53 points on her last jump.
Scoring 138 points on his huge final jump Guangpu Qi (CHN) improved upon his silver medal from 2011 with the win.
Nearly 400 athletes from 35 nations have converged upon Norway, as the biggest event of the FIS Freestyle season gets underway at the Voss/Oslo 2013 Freestyle Ski World Championships.
David Morris (AUS) finished with a score of 112.67 to get the win over American Dylan Ferguson. This is Morris’ 2nd World Cup podium.
Emily Cook (USA) talks about getting over her slow start to get the victory and being excited about the upcoming world championships.
In the first final heat Christopher Lambert under rotated a backflip and took a hard crash landing hard on his face. Lambert was able to walk away unassisted.
Dylan Feruson (USA) talks about how excited he is to finally get over his ‘season slump” of not finishing on the podium.
Nadiya Didenko (UKR)was unable to was away with the win in front of her home crowd but was still successful in getting on the podium with a score of 83.16. Didenko lost to American Emily Cook by .73 points.
Emily Cook(USA) finished with a score of 83.89, giving her the 3rd 1st place finish of her career. Fellow American Kiley Mckinnon finished 4th.
Racing bib number 8, the American Dylan Ferguson finished with a score of 105.31. Fellow American Emily Cook took home gold in the women’s Aerials.
Aerialists ski off 2-4 meter jumps, usually built of wood, sometimes metal and then covered with snow, that propel them up to 6 meters in the air (which can be up to 20 meters above the landing height).
Nick Gismondi and Trace Worthington break down the top American performances of the day and what to expect going ahead.
Dylan Ferguson (USA) took a hard crash onto his back after he over-rotated on his landing. He was looking to make it into the final four, but he fell to 12th place.
Guangpu Qi (CHN) finished with a score of 129.41, losing to fellow countryman Zongyang Jia by .45. This is not the first time this has happened, as Guangpu also beat him out of 1st two weeks ago at Changchum.
Zongyang Jia (CHN) finished with a score of 129.86, beating his second place countryman Guangpu Qi by .45 points. Zongyang also finished 1st two weeks ago in Changchum.
Xu Mentao finished with a score of 92.72, beating out second place Yu Yang by 2.13 seconds. Mentao has won all three of the previous WC Aerials events.
Emily Cook (USA) scored a bronze on her home turf after finishing with a score of 87.25. This was Cook’s first WC podium finish in almost a year.
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