Noémie Equy Snowboard Women Second Place Run I 2025 Val Thorens Pro

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00:00And now she wants to do it for the home crowd.

00:0424 years old, riding right out of here.

00:08This is her home valley.

00:09When she checked into the hotel, she walked there.

00:16Noemi out of start gate number 2 and just pointing the board straight down, straight into it.

00:22Full airdrop for Noemi Aki.

00:25And right off of her first and second feature, lining them up.

00:29The crowd here to our left is firing.

00:33Such strong commitment.

00:35This woman is so, so strong.

00:37She is always fully on her board, fully over it, fully on her feet.

00:42Yeah.

00:43We've got to wonder if she's feeling the pressure of that home crowd, of performing in front of her home fans.

00:49It certainly doesn't look like it as she has the pedal down, flying.

00:54Noemi Aki going so fast through that section and now still picking up more speed.

01:00There's multiple features stacked up below her as Noemi now sending in and stomping again.

01:07This girl is on fire.

01:09She has her work that she did all summer.

01:12She's in the gym, but she also spent the last five months in New Zealand.

01:15She is riding a lot and it shows in this full commitment to the fall line.

01:21What a run for the rookie, riding with absolute veteran confidence down this face.

01:28Never even a moment of hesitation.

01:30Another one with the grab.

01:32Noemi Aki blasting through this.

01:34The crowd is going bananas for her.

01:37She's already got a win.

01:39I mean, for sure, no control issues.

01:42This is going to be a hot, hot score for Noemi Aki.

01:47You know, you never know.

01:49Once you come in as a rookie and you place first in that first competition,

01:53that's its own set of pressure.

01:55That pressure to have that target on your back is different as an athlete.

01:59Everyone's kind of got their eyes on you.

02:01The media attention ramps up a bit and how you control that and then turn it into a run like this

02:07just shows how strong she is.

02:09So strong physically and mentally to be able to put a run like that down in front of the home crowd.

02:14You can see the signs.

02:15The flags are waving.

02:17We got the Virgil Didier fan club.

02:19Let's look back at this run.

02:21Super strong off the top.

02:23I mean, she came out of that start gate with the board pointing straight to the finish line

02:27and never really deviated.

02:29Yeah, and just freight training off that one going in almost up to her neck.

02:35Huge.

02:37Enjoying the powder turns, too, in between each of her airs.

02:42Yeah, and that one absolutely gorgeous.

02:43There's not another track in sight where she takes off or lands.

02:47Noemi, it keys so direct out of the start.

02:50Just a full rocket ride into her run going full speed, full intensity all the way.

02:59There we've got the Noemi head bobbing around.

03:02The French fans loving what they're seeing.

03:04We've already got a women's champion in skiing.

03:06Are we going to see the same in snowboarding?

03:08But nothing is decided yet.

03:10We don't have a score for Noemi, and we have a whole draft of talented athletes still up top.

03:32Well, the score coming in for Noemi Aki, the judges loving it, 88.33.

03:39We have another French athlete in the hot seat.

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