• 8 months ago
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00:00 If he wins today and hits it his fourth or less, then Markus is world champion.
00:04 But I think right now he's not worried at all about a world title.
00:07 He is worried about dropping in on the Bech der Ross.
00:11 The young Whistler rider has had a stellar season on the tour.
00:15 And another rider heading out here to the left and getting things started.
00:19 Working his way down to the looker's right of the venue.
00:23 Opting for this spicy drop in here through this enormous exposure.
00:29 Backing himself to lay some turns above all those rocks.
00:32 Yeah and I was talking to him, he actually wants to open up this new way to get into
00:39 the central couloir that hasn't been skied yet today, which is a pretty intimidating task.
00:43 So right here he's kind of setting up to come over back to that looker's left.
00:48 Yeah moving through the exposure around that rock circle.
00:53 You can see just a slight slow down there to let the slough clear.
00:57 So Markus showing veteran big mountain moves as he is truly into the meat of this run.
01:04 Markus Gogen now on this big exposed spine.
01:07 Airing in, riding out strong, heading over above the Hollywood.
01:13 360 stops.
01:24 Looking like he was trying to get his pole back into his hand.
01:27 As Markus now moving across out to the rider's left.
01:30 We haven't seen a lot of play in this part of the face.
01:34 As Markus Gogen coming in and making his way on top of another chunky set of features.
01:40 So here we go, this is into the McIntosh nose zone.
01:44 Made famous by Ian McIntosh, he hit the nose on the left there.
01:47 But Markus has something else planned here.
01:50 Setting up, making the turn and then he wants to double here.
01:54 Bouncing and stomping!
01:56 Markus Gogen with a brand new line on the Bech-de-Ros and the absolutely enormous triple.
02:03 Unbelievable line there.
02:07 That was so much bigger than it looked.
02:09 Holy guacamole, the judges got their work cut out for them.
02:15 The second block of that triple is dead vertical and you carry so far out with how steep it is.
02:22 Oh my god!
02:24 Marky Mark!
02:24 It fazed!
02:25 Nice one bro!
02:27 That was huge!
02:28 Wow, what are the judges gonna do with it?
02:32 Wow, that was scary!
02:33 Wow!
02:34 Markus the king of the sound bites in the finish line.
02:38 So we go back up to the top in this huge exposure, Andrew.
02:42 And Markus just handling it.
02:43 Yeah, you can see the slough just pouring off the cliff there.
02:46 He's coming down in.
02:47 It's this cool little spine feature that he got on too.
02:50 It's actually above the Hollywood.
02:52 We'll see if we get a wide angle of it.
02:54 But this is the Gilles Verrol cliff.
02:56 I want to say that that's only been link and looped by someone.
02:59 But no one's ever done a three off that.
03:01 Yeah, lost his pole there.
03:02 But this double, man.
03:03 He wanted to name something on the face.
03:05 And yeah, we can call this the cheeseburger.
03:09 Look at the size of that thing!
03:11 Oh my goodness.
03:13 And how does he land that stuff, dude?
03:15 I even...
03:15 Yeah, I need to hit the gym.
03:17 The two biggest airs of the day, back to back.
03:21 That one enormous.
03:22 Markus just catching the end and bouncing again off.
03:26 He was in the air far more than he was on the ground on that one.
03:29 And just making it look easy.
03:30 Like you said, he's so strong.
03:32 And the technique required to not be backseat.
03:35 You know, we've seen moves like that not work out for riders on the Freeride World Tour in the past.
03:39 And Markus just handling it like an absolute ski god.
03:44 Yeah, interesting to see what they're going to do here.
03:46 Because Finns was definitely a little bit on the cleaner side.
03:49 With the little loss of control when he was gathering his pole there.
03:52 But I mean, the line score was out of this world.
03:56 So yeah, they're going to give it to him.
03:58 Oh, they loved it!
03:59 96 points for Markus Gogen!
04:03 Wow, man.

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