The final of the top 12 takes place on Sunday night (2.30 a.m. CET/live ORF 1).
“I go ‘all in’. I won’t tactic anymore, I’m not good at that either, it seems to me,” Gasser told APA. “If I go straight to my limit, I’m less nervous and don’t make these sloppy mistakes. It’ll either be a medal or I’ll be twelfth in the worst case.”
During Gasser’s first run, there were uncertainties about the rails, which she later explained as nervous. “As soon as I’m on the kickers, I’m no longer nervous. My feet aren’t quite as loose on the rails. Tomorrow I have to find that looseness.”
She eliminated the initial difficulties on Saturday with the second run. In extreme cold, but less wind than feared, Gasser finished with a “Backside 720 Weddle” and a no less confident “Frontside 720 Weddle”. The best qualifier was Zoi Sadowski Synnott from New Zealand (86.75) ahead of Japan’s Kokomo Murase (81.45).
“It really took a lot off my heart. It really didn’t have to be that I made such a mistake on the rail on my first run, my safety run. I knew that the first one wouldn’t be enough for the final.” She was annoyed that she made such a blunder in this “easy run”. “That was the run where I actually didn’t have to concentrate anymore.”
In the medal decision, she wanted to increase the difficulty of her tricks: “I’ll make a double out of the first flip, on the second I’ll also make a double and when I’ve stood that, I’ll try to add a little more to the last kicker. Leave the front seven I might, but I could top that up to a double 10. I’ll have to look at the conditions.”
In 2018, Gasser won the Olympic gold medal in Big Air, which was awarded for the first time in Pyeongchang. In the slopestyle competition, like many of her competitors, she had to contend with the gusty wind and ended up only 15th as one of the favorites.
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