By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 31 minutes ago
Chloe Kim JAMIE SQUIRE / AFP
The American won in Colorado by becoming the first to land a “1260”.
The American Chloé Kim, queen of freestyle snowboarding, won the X Games halfpipe competition for the 7th time on Friday in Aspen (Colorado, United States) with a «1260», unpublished figure. At 23, the double Olympic champion in the discipline (2018 and 2022), crushed the halfpipe competition with 96.33 points ahead of the Japanese Mitsuki Ono (87.00) and the Chinese Xuetong Cai (83.66).
During her 3rd pass, the victory already acquired, she achieved a «1260»three and a half turns on itself, an unprecedented figure in competition in the discipline. “I really wanted to do this trick for a long time. I would have hoped to be a little cleaner (she put her hands on the reception), but I’m glad I managed., she declared into the microphone of the organizers. The British Mia Brookes (17 years old) won the snowboard slopestyle event.
Chloe Kim JAMIE SQUIRE / AFP
