Canadian skier Cassie Sharpe wins World Cup gold medal in halfpipe
Cassie Sharpe was tired of waiting to unleash her latest trick in competition.
So with a World Cup victory assured on Friday, the freestyle skier from Comox, B.C., used her third and final run down the halfpipe in Snowmass, Colo., to test out her cork 1080 — a full three-rotation spin while flipping upside down in mid-air — and she nailed it.
Sharpe scored a whopping 93.20 points on that run, which also included a right-cork 900 and a left-cork 700, for her second straight win and third of the season.
“I’ve kinda kept it under wraps for two or three months now,” Sharpe said of the cork 1080. “I’ve been training it, I’ve been trying it and every contest I’d always tell (my team): ‘I want to do this trick, I want to do it.’ And they kept telling me to hold back on it because my run was winning without it and I don’t need it.