Valentin Rainer Second Place Ski Men Run I 2025 Val Thorens Pro

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00:00in these conditions and the first rider that we're going to see see push out of start two so

00:05center ridge it is a huge cornice directly below him so this is the what you were talking about

00:10hadley he's going to be dropping straight into it we'll see which direction he chooses to go

00:14riding out of saint anton they've had a great start down there too so he's been gotten pretty

00:18comfortable skiing in the powder and this guy likes to go fast so i think we'll see how this

00:24powder run works for him but i believe this is going to be a quick run so the riders uh coming

00:30out of start two if they want to access these features a little bit more riders left they do

00:34have to step up there will be no dock and fluidity as valley now just getting a little pole whacking

00:39earning himself some nar points you can see how overhanging that is as valley poking his nose

00:46over the void and getting things started here we go straight into it perfect 360 transfer

00:54oh yeah valley landing just on the low side of that sluff cone and connecting back in so a hot

01:01start there for valley rainer as he needs to get across this flat section this is more challenging

01:06there's probably the only downside of having so much snow is this flat section before it rolls

01:12over into the zone where we saw matisse and timo go it's going to just take a little bit of trench

01:17work to get over there but valley now the ground rolling away again as we move back into it he's

01:22entering this section which is much steeper than it looks from here it really shoots you

01:28straight into the center of the gut making another transfer with the shifty and valley

01:34now coming into this big cliff lofty 360 perfect landing oh valley rainer showing exactly exactly

01:43such perfect judgment on the rotation of that 360 knowing exactly how hard to set which is

01:49such an incredible skill given that they have never been off that feature they don't know how

01:53far they're going to go never been off and as the first rider again you have no track in front of

01:58you have no lip this isn't a park jump this all has to come from sort of years of years of building

02:04that intuitive knowledge yeah that just i'm i'm speechless with the perfection of that coming

02:12cross court you can see uh or you could see some some surface snow starting to break away it's

02:18breaking in the form of a slab but it's only about 10 centimeters deep so the rider's not

02:22really fussed and it's super soft there's not a lot of density to that surface slab that's breaking

02:27away uh incredible run there for valley rainer look at this start just so vertical right off the

02:34top just a perfect acid drop and a great transfer he almost went too big there he really had to hold

02:42hold it through that transition yeah styling out that shifty again landing in perfect powder snow

02:49and then knowing exactly where to go here the early takeoff look how high

02:53off the ground he is that control button is all the way maxed

03:02those those little tweaks and shifty's really show the judges that you're perfectly in control

03:07no real lip there valley just floating it feet coming apart to slow the rotation perfect

03:12connection he knew exactly where he was that was immaculate he just lands and when you see

03:18them just being able to make that turn and you almost see them take a breath you know that he's

03:22confident

03:35here we go the score coming in for valley rainer 89.67

03:40the judges loving it and valley rainer into the hot seat