Great conditions continued for the ladies event at Breckenridge following on from a great showing by the boys. With 5 out of 8 riders out of the US, this was all about Olympic qualification again.

Run 1:

Devin Logan was the first to put up a decent score with solid grabs on most of her airs to go in to first.

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/886002/7cafa028-4b69-432a-b84a-18f83791edd5-mp4

Marie Martinod was close to blowing the scores out of the park but had a bobble at the bottom of a great run. Cassie Sharpe had a straight air truckdriver which was dope, but also a super nice grabbed cork 9. She easily took the lead with an 88.00.

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Run 2:

Maddie Bowman dropped a 90.0 with lots of ways spun but lacked on the grabs somewhat. Marie Martinod has a straight air and both ways flairs, a 9 and a 7 to go first.

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/886007/88887899-78dc-47f3-9f07-0b408b3718d9-mp4

However she was bumped immediately by Cassie Sharpe who cleaned up her grabs and that was enough for a 93.33.

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/886009/7bba476f-a459-42a3-9861-d281c21ef04d-mp4

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Run 3:

Nothing much changed. Maddie Bowman put down a mirror image of her last run but didn't get the grabs required to bump either Marie or Cassie. Brita managed to finally put it down but swapped a right 5 she'd been struggling on for a straight air and got punished heavily by the judges. Marie Martinod couldn't better her previous run, leaving Cassie Sharpe with a victory lap. She's looking like the odds on favorite to win pretty much every pipe comp down the line. Maddie Bowman ticked off a podium from the Olympic qualification criteria so she's one step closer to defending her gold from Sochi.