(Saint-Côme) Eight Canadian moguls reached the round of 16 at the Freestyle Ski World Cup in Val-St-Côme.
In the men's category, Mikaël Kingsbury will have a fratricidal duel with Louis David-Chalifoux; Julien Viel meets South Korean Daeyoon Jung; Elliot Vaillancourt, silver medalist in the singles the day before, meets Australian Matt Graham; while Samuel Goodison, who got a bye in 16Are If the Swede Walter Wallberg didn't start, he will face the Kazakh Pavel Kolmakov.
In the women's category, Mai Schwinghammer meets the French Fantine Degroote; Berkley has to fight against Japan's Hinako Tomikata; while Laurianne Desmarais-Gilbert faces American Olivia Giaccio.
Gabriel Dufresne's journey ended against Vaillancourt in the 16th gameAre of the final. Vaillancourt fell and approached the Dufresne Couloir, blinded by all the snow caused by this fall. As he tried to avoid his compatriot's skiing, he crossed the center line. This departure from the track was fatal for him; even if he resumed the race, this deficit is considered an unfinished race.
Dufresne briefly tried to explain to reporters on the scene what happened, but he was angry about the outcome of that race.
Among the other Canadians, Sam Cordell was also eliminated in 16th placeAre of the final. For Ryan Portello, Joey Dubuc and Charles Beaulieu, their journey ended in the first round. Jessica Linton was eliminated by Schwinghammer in the first round, which also saw Maya Mikkelsen and Ahsley Koehler eliminated.
Kingsbury was able to consolidate his first places in the overall standings and achieve success at the same time. In addition to waiving Wallberg, he benefited from the hasty elimination of Ikuma Horishima, whom Jung 16 had releasedAre of the final.
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