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00:00 - Back up to the start gate.
00:01 - Yeah, we take no breaks here at the Freeride World Tour.
00:04 Astrid Chez Luce riding out of that
00:07 powerhouse Lazark Freeride team.
00:09 Astrid, 20 years old.
00:11 She's a former Freeride World Tour,
00:13 sorry, Freeride World Junior Champion as well.
00:16 We got a handful of them in the field here.
00:18 Astrid now on course and looking to back things up
00:21 and see if she can have a reply
00:23 to what we just saw from Hedvig.
00:24 - Taking it right fall line out of start one,
00:27 making quick work through that technical section
00:29 and carrying her speed beautifully into this next cliff band.
00:32 Astrid is an absolute sender,
00:35 taking it off this nose to a bit of a back slap.
00:39 You saw, she found that crust, but bounced up, holding on.
00:42 - Fighting for balance there.
00:44 Athletic moves from Astrid Chez Luce.
00:47 Finding another feature here, going across the gully,
00:50 trying to manage the speed here as best she can,
00:53 stacking features.
00:54 - Yeah, absolutely.
00:55 As it's getting skied out,
00:56 it's getting a lot faster through that middle section.
00:58 I think it's taking them a bit by surprise.
01:01 Making quick work of it though, staying in control,
01:04 staying on her feet, not letting it get the back of her.
01:07 - Come on, Astrid Chez Luce with a back flip
01:10 off the wind lip at the bottom.
01:13 - Talk about bonus points, talk about risking it.
01:16 And that is okay to dive on the ground there in celebration.
01:20 What a gamble and she stomped it off that lip
01:24 with the back flip.
01:25 - Well, the contrast in that run,
01:27 a huge air at the top with the big back slap
01:29 we're gonna see in the replay.
01:30 And then the first rider of the day to really dig in
01:34 to that bottom wind lip feature.
01:35 - Making quick work and just knows exactly
01:40 where she needs to go through there, navigating the rocks.
01:43 And I think she kind of landed on a tree mogul thing,
01:46 which kicked her back right away,
01:47 but she popped off and stayed fall line on her feet
01:50 and just laying out that back flip to bolts.
01:53 - Yeah, and Tom on the replay,
01:55 the back slap didn't look as bad as it did in real life.
01:59 Definitely the butt down,
02:00 the judges look at multiple stages of back slap.
02:02 Stage one, your butt touches.
02:04 Stage two, it's your backpack on the ground.
02:05 Stage three, your head's dragging in the snow.
02:08 So probably, of course we're not judges,
02:10 but probably closer to a stage one on that,
02:12 but on a huge air onto hard snow.
02:15 And then the back flip at the bottom,
02:16 Hedvig's gonna be nervous now,
02:18 'cause that was a really, really solid one
02:20 for Astrid Chez Luce, the French rider.
02:22 We saw her kind of on a slightly mellower grade
02:25 earlier in Verbier.
02:26 Now what are we gonna see?
02:27 86.67 for Astrid Chez Luce,
02:30 a short stint in the hot seat for Hedvig.
02:33 And Astrid having her way with the venue today.
02:36 Huge hugs for these women.
02:37 - That backie paid off.
02:39 Huge, huge risk.
02:40 I love to see it.
02:41 The trick bag is deep across the category,
02:43 so that's gonna be super inspiring
02:45 for the rest of the women.
02:46 Super solid riding from Astrid.