Of the eight men and women representing the United States in slopestyle and big air, all but one live and train in Utah.
in the women’s slopestyle event. Qualifying was bumped to Monday after Sunday’s snowstorm created poor visibility. With the sun shining but temperatures below 20 degrees, Hamill and Voisin advanced to Tuesday’s final.
“I kind of feel like I got all of my messy runs out of the way,” said Voisin, who took fourth in slopestyle in 2018, “and am ready to go full send.” “The funny part is, when I was getting into the sport, it was only the X Games and, like, there wasn’t even World Cups yet. It wasn’t a sport yet,” Stevenson said. “It’s just, that’s why it’s so cool. I was just following my passion and expressing myself through skiing and different tricks, and my own style of tricks. And now that has kind of morphed into an Olympic sport.”
Goepper joined their crew when he moved to the state just three years ago. He has won a bronze and a silver in the past two Olympics and said he would like to have the complete set. “A lot of the pioneers of the sport were here, like Tanner Hall and George Christiansen, Simon Dumont, like all those people were here training,” he said. “They’re out here and hitting the water ramp all summer long.”