Dive into the excitement of the top 5 ski women lines from last season featuring Elisabeth Gerritzen and Megane Betend in Kicking Horse Golden BC, Addison Rafford in Baqueira Beret, Molly Armanino and Justine Dufour-Lapointe in Ordino Arcalís.
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00:00 What a show, ski women, every single time they drop in we get fireworks.
00:04 Elizabeth Gerritsen, always stylish, always a different take on the pace.
00:12 It feels like the Verbier riders just have a style that kind of carries out of their background from Verbier.
00:18 Always really fast, you know you can count on Elizabeth for a high speed run.
00:24 Straight away, straight away.
00:26 The wind off the cornice there coming into this section, we're seeing a few more tracks in this section.
00:31 We saw it pay off for Mégot Vétan. Elizabeth taking a very similar approach, stomping on that one.
00:38 Really good flow here, like through a technical section, keeping the skis moving.
00:43 Beautiful technique, really strong riding, very clear and precise to where she's going.
00:49 Working towards a similar line, taking it back across the hill towards the double.
00:54 Similar line choice, so smooth, so strong. Elizabeth Gerritsen.
01:00 A solid, solid run for the Verbier rider, the 2021 world champion, Elizabeth Gerritsen.
01:06 Yeah, fresh mindset for Addison Rafford, young rookie, set to kick off her Freeride World Tour career out of the gate.
01:16 Here she goes, she's given us waves, she thinks she's at the judging line.
01:21 So now she is starting her first Freeride World Tour run in earnest.
01:25 Coming into this cool wire here.
01:27 Strong pace here for Addison Rafford. We saw this play out nicely for Sibille Blanjon.
01:39 And a nice big turn.
01:48 Addy with a slightly different take on it though, airing into the chute with the grab.
01:52 Solid landing there and she skis out of it beautifully and takes another air with the grab.
01:58 Looking good, Addison Rafford with a great start to her Freeride World Tour campaign.
02:09 As we move back up to the start, a Chamonix local here, Megan Beton,
02:18 kicking out of the gate.
02:19 See what she makes, she's gone a more central line.
02:21 Really nice turns here, finding some good power, making it look good, fluid.
02:27 Look at that power.
02:28 Yeah, charging through this section as she comes past this upper little zone that's eaten up a few riders.
02:35 A unique take on it and a really, really sensible move there.
02:38 Strong riding here for Megan Beton.
02:41 She has got the pedal to the metal coming into this lower section.
02:45 I don't know if I'd call any of this sensible. This is fast, fluid, aggressive, full line skiing.
02:50 Holy moly, look at that section!
02:53 Just race that!
02:55 Turning it into a triple there for Megan Beton, exactly what she needed to do.
03:01 Molly Armanino in the start gate.
03:08 She's a wildcard, dominated the qualifiers last year.
03:15 So she's finding some pow turns there.
03:17 It looks like the wind's had its way with that Couloir though,
03:20 so it might be some pretty packed powder in there.
03:23 Yeah, and Molly now into the heart of things, over top of the exposure.
03:28 Really, really steep section as she kind of finds her way through, up and over that wind feature.
03:41 So let's see if she's got some features lined up for us here.
04:00 And airing into her slough but remaining in control and massive air out there.
04:07 Oh, she's doing it!
04:14 Another feature here.
04:15 Yeah, we saw this one in play now, pointing it off that one as well.
04:19 Extremely creative line, no other tracks in that zone and that air at the bottom.
04:35 Well, we go back up for our last rider in the ski women's field, Justine Duport-Lepointe.
04:41 Justine is here to play, her skiing always aggressive.
04:47 It's kind of a trademark of her skiing, high speed,
04:50 high risk and very exciting to watch.
04:52 Justine, on course.
05:00 All right, so navigating this little bump, big pop there, catching a little safety grab,
05:09 starting things off that bump.
05:11 Definitely, we've seen a few riders, well, we saw Addison get rocked by that.
05:14 Now coming down to this heart cliff, picking it up with a little pre-pop,
05:18 nice and clean on the land.
05:20 A good start here for Justine.
05:22 Yeah, popping slightly early.
05:33 I think a lot of them watched the videos from last season and saw
05:36 the way it was taken.
05:37 Same angle as Molly, nice clean landing.
05:39 All right, so Justine well and truly into things here, catching the wind lip,
05:44 flying across and able to handle it.
05:46 That's a very strange transition from down to back up again.
05:50 And now Justine over on this rider's left side of the face.
05:54 Looking for one of these features here, there's lots to choose from, taking it, strong stomp.
06:01 I feel like you'd never be able to tell that she was a local skier.
06:05 She's got like such a new school style.
06:07 It's not, I don't know, not very structured.
06:09 Nice and clean into the finish.
06:12 A clean run for Justine Duport-Lepoint.
06:17 From Montreal, Quebec, in Canada, your Freeride World Tour champion, Justine Duport-Lepoint!
06:22 [Cheering]
06:30 [Music]