TTR Air & Style Beijing: Day 1
Riders Ready to Go Head-to-head.
The Riders Draw took place on Thursday evening after riders returned from the stadium. All the Air & Style events feature a unique head-to-head elimination tournament-style format. So, after training, the riders were brought together to choose names out of a hat to see who will go head-to-head in the first round of competition on Saturday. Each rider will have three runs and the rider with the best score moves on to the next round, while the rider who loses is knocked out of competition.
Current Swatch TTR Tour leader Gjermund Braaten (NOR) explains, "Y...