Leon Vockensperger

AUDI NINES MEETS AUDI DESIGN: UNVEILING THE 2021 SETUP

Collaboration with designer Sebastian Gehwolf has pushed the 2021 Audi Nines setup to stunning new aesthetic heights. This striking blend of function and art is currently under construction in Crans-Montana, Valais, Switzerland, where the closed-to-the-public event will take place from the 7th to the 10th of April, 2021.

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IWABUCHI, KLEVELAND AND GASSER BIG WINNERS AT SEASON FINALE IN SILVAPLANA

The final event of the 2020/21 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe season took to the slopes of a brand-new venue for the world’s best riders, and the slopestyle competition that went down on the unique and exciting course at Silvaplana’s Corvatsch 3303 resort did not disappoint. In the end, Reira Iwabuchi (JPN) and Marcus Kleveland (NOR) would take the wins with standout performances on Sunday, while Kleveland and Anna Gasser (AUT) would end the season as the big winners with double crystal globe finishes.

Pictured: Marcus Kleveland (NOR) ends 2020/21 World Cup season with slopestyle and Park & Pipe overall crystal globe titles, after winning FIS Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup Corvatsch, at Corvatsch Park, Silvaplana, Switzerland, March 28, 2021. Image credit: Mateusz Kielpinski / FIS Snowboard

THE AUDI NINES 2021: THE SESSION IS ON

The team behind the Audi Nines are thankful and excited to announce: It’s official, the Audi Nines are back and it’s game on! Buckle your seatbelts folks — in exactly two weeks, a special instalment of the pioneering action sports series will debut in a brand-new location.

For the first time the Audi Nines will bring its unique blend of action sports éclat to Crans-Montana, Switzerland from the 7th-10th April, 2021

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SILVAPLANA IS GETTING READY TO HOST FIS SNOWBOARD WORLD CUP CORVATSCH THIS WEEK

The world’s best freeskiers and snowboarders are on their way to Silvaplana in Switzerland to join the last Slopestyle World Cup of the season. It’s the 8th edition of the Freeski World Cup (March 26th – 27th) at Corvatsch park while it’s the premiere for the Snowboard World Cup (March 27th – 28th). The short-notice addition of Snowboarding which was originally planned in Czech Republic was a no-brainer for Corvatsch AG, as they just handed in the application for the Ski-Freestyle and Snowboard World Championships 2025. This week it’s all about important event titles, a prizemoney of CHF 100.000 in total (CHF 50.000 for each sport) and last but definitely not least the small crystal globes for the final Slopestyle World Cup standings 2020/21, a pre-Olympic season.

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ANDERSON AND MATTSSON OPEN SLOPESTYLE SEASON WITH LAAX OPEN WINS

In a 2020/21 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe season where nobody can be quite sure what is going to happen from one day - or even one hour - to the next, the worries of the world were pushed the side for a couple of blissful hours and some of the world’s best slopestyle riders got down to business at the Laax Open 2021, where Jamie Anderson of the USA and Sweden’s Niklas Mattsson walked away victorious from a tough competition.

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LAAX OPEN 2021 SLOPESTYLE FINALISTS DETERMINED

With the renowned LAAX OPEN, the FIS Snowboard Tour opens the 2020/21 season for Slopestyle and Halfpipe. The multi-award-winning freestyle winter destination LAAX presented itself in its brilliant best light to the World Cup circuit at Crap Sogn Gion: lightning-blue skies, the best snow conditions, the immense pipe and an innovative Slopestyle course. It being precisely this course that was the focus of the contest action today. As winners of today's semi-finals, two-time Olympic Slopestyle champion Jamie Anderson (USA) and Moritz Boll (SUI) are entering the finals on Friday, 22 January 2021 with confidence.

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