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Cardrona Alpine Resort was the host for the final sports challenge at the Obsidian 2020, the Park Jam. The athletes threw down some amazing tricks to wow the spectators on a bluebird day. The men’s ski was the biggest category and at the end of the semi-finals it was hard for the judges to pick only three to go through. It ended up with Finn Bilous grabbing first, Jackson Wells in second and Beau-James Wells rounding out in third. It was a similar story for the men’s snowboard category w...

With best conditions, the Obsidian Freeride competition on the WTF face in the Minaret Range near Lake Wanaka took place. The heli-access venue tested the 21 athletes, with Janina Kuzma showing her experience in the women’s category. The 2014 Halfpipe veteran from the Sochi Olympics and the Freeride World Tour veteran was strong and smooth on the face in difficult conditions. Ronan Thompson was first in the European and Oceania Junior Freeride World Tour in 2019 and he was one of the few sn...

The Big Air Tournament of Obsidian 2020 is in the books. Team Jossi took out the top spot in each of the three categories today, with Nico Porteous, Margaux Hackett and Carlos Garcia Knight’s strong performances. This would normally have meant they were at the top of the overall standings for the day, but Team Kuzma strategically played their Joker card on the Big Air event. This card allows the team to gain double points on the day they use it. This pushed them infront with 160 points, to Te...

The Big Air Tournament of Obsidian 2020 is in the books. Team Jossi took out the top spot in each of the three categories today, with Nico Porteous, Margaux Hackett and Carlos Garcia Knight’s strong performances. This would normally have meant they were at the top of the overall standings for the day, but Team Kuzma strategically played their Joker card on the Big Air event. This card allows the team to gain double points on the day they use it. This pushed them infront with 160 points, to Te...

Winter Games NZ is the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest snow sports event. Traditionally it welcomes the world’s best skiers and snowboarders to compete in the opening of the FIS Park and Pipe World Cup season and The North Face Frontier, a Freeride World Qualifying Tour 4* & 2* event. This year that can’t happen, so rather than let the event lapse Winter Games NZ will run Obsidian. Obsidian is an epic new mixed Team Challenge event for the Winter Games NZ 2020, set across New Zealand’s Southern...

The E-Tour du Mont-Blanc (E-TMB) is the flagship event of the VERBIER E-BIKE FESTIVAL and after three stunning stages, the race is over. The 2nd edition of the ETMB delivered its fair share of twists and surprises. The Lapierre and Haibike teams took the top honors in men and women’s competitions respectively. The beauty of the surroundings makes spectators and contestants forget the physical chall enges. Especially for the athletes, after 3 day of intense competition on the event course,...

The E-Tour du Mont-Blanc (E-TMB) is the flagship event of the VERBIER E-BIKE FESTIVAL. By invitation only, elite e-bike riders will take part in a 3 day, 300km race, (including 260km of single tracks) around Mont Blanc; through Switzerland, Italy, and France. The E-TMB is the only event in the festival reserved for experienced e-bikers and is an exceptional e-race. 19 teams of competitors are facing off on the slopes of the Mont-Blanc massif, tackling more than 300 kilometer and 1600 meters o...

The E-Tour du Mont-Blanc (E-TMB) is the flagship event of the VERBIER E-BIKE FESTIVAL. By invitation only, elite e-bike riders will take part in a 3 day, 300km race, (including 260km of single tracks) around Mont Blanc; through Switzerland, Italy, and France. The E-TMB is the only event in the festival reserved for experienced e-bikers and is an exceptional e-race. Stage Facts: E-TMB DAY 1 Stage: « VERBIER - SOM-LA-PROZ - COURMAYEUR » Altitude gain: 5161m Altitude loss: 5485m Distan...

The Engadinwind is the most important water sports event worldwide and the first world champs at this year’s event were crowned in the 2020 Formula Foil World Championships in the racing discipline: The gold fleet men category was dominated by Nicolas Goyard (FRA). After 10 races (8 to count, 2 discards per athlete) he won the gold medal with a score of 9.0. The battle for the podium was nail-biting. Przemyslaw Miarczynski from Poland won the silver medal with a score of 32 and French Pierre...

The Foil Freestyle World Championship took place at the Engadinwind 2020 and is one of the biggest highlight competitions at the Engadinwind 2020. The nine men and three women were competing in THE perfect foiling conditions. Balz Müller (SUI), a pioneer in this discipline has been leading the mens fleet, whilst his girlfriend Eva Wyss took first yesterday in the womens fleet. Once again all the riders were on the water together in some kind of overall impression session, where the best power...

Today was day three and the final day of the freestyle competitions at the Engadinwind 2020. The European Freestyle Pro Tour (EFPT) Tow-in Contest finals took place with 6 riders – 3 runs and the best score counted. Yentel Caers from Belgium is the defending champion and Sarah Quita Offringa from Aruba is the first ever women to compete in an EFPT Tow-In final. She is 17-time world champion and all-rounder in windsurfing, world champion in the wave, freestyle and slalom disciplines. Winner o...

The Formula Foil World Championship at the Engadinwind started on August 17th on Lake Silvaplana and today the last races were held. The Engadinwind is the most important water sports event worldwide and the first world champs at this year’s event were crowned in the 2020 Formula Foil World Championships in the racing discipline: Dominating the women’s races throughout the week and therefore the well-deserved new World Champion was Hélene Noesmoen from France with only 8 points (8 wins). Maja...

Another world premiere at the Vanora ENGADINWIND by Dakine 2020 was the Wing Foil exhibition event by the newly founded GWA Global Wingsports Association. The contest was held in the disciplines racing and freestyle, on Sunday August 16 on Lake St. Moritz and on Monday, August 17 on Lake Silvaplana. The Swiss foil pioneer Balz Müller from Biel, who won the foil style world championship in Silvaplana last year, secured himself the gold medal. Silver won his fellow countryman Michael Näf and th...

The contest kicked off on the 15./16. August with a world premiere in St. Moritz. The 12 best men and 6 women in the world are invited to the iQ Foil Exhibition on Lake St. Moritz. Reigning world champion of the Olympic class Kiran Badloe from the Netherlands took home the first gold medal of the Engadinwind 2020, silver won by Maciek Rutkowsky (POL) and Bronze goes to Nico Goyard (FRA), reigning Foil World champion. Lilian de Geus (NED), world champion of the Olympic windsurfing class won th...

The polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel re-wrote history on the K2 (8.611m summit), the infamous Himalayan peak, the world’s second highest mountain. On July 22nd 2018 he summited K2 without oxygen and skied from peak to base without removing his skis – a seemingly impossible challenge which had never been completed before or since. The 60h+ ascent of K2 alone is an extraordinary achievement that pushes even the most experienced and highest skilled mountaineers to their limits.