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release date:09/12/2011

TEAM EUROPE WINS THE SWATCH SKIERS CUP 14 - 10

VALLE NEVADO, CHILE(Saturday, September 10, 2011) Team Europe clinched the SWATCH SKIERS CUP today with a final score of 14 – 10 at the inaugural freeski competition high in the Chilean Andes. In today’s showdown on the Backcountry Slopestyle course, Team Europe held their own against the favored strength of Team Americas freestylers and it was Kaj Zackrisson and his band of seven riders that held the SWATCH SKIERS CUP triumphantly aloft at the end of the day.

The Swatch Skiers Cup is based on a simple concept first developed by Freeriders Kaj Zaricksson and Sverre Liliequist: bringing together the world's best Freeskiers in a "first of its kind" intercontinental team competition.
Team Nordica was represented as well,Sverre Liliequistrepresenting Europe andRory Bushfieldand Oakley White Allen for team Americas

Round 1
Coming off the Big Mountain segment of the event Monday trailing 2-6, Team Americas’ riders were pressed in the Backcountry Slopestyle discipline to reverse their deficit. Powered by the talents of Rory Bushfield (CAN) and Dylan Hood (USA), they delivered their best. Rory simply stomped everything he threw, though his top run would include a 360 over the entry hip, a cork-720 off the kicker, a right-side 360 off a medium-sized drop and finish with a 180 nosetap off a rolling 10-meter drop.
Switzerland’s Nicolas Vuignier, his first-round rival, answered with one of the most stylish cab-540’s of the day. Most impressive in the first round was the explosive energy of Markus Eder’s (ITA) cab 900 mute and switch 540 revert.
A series of spills by Team Americas would limit their gains, though, and both teams finished the first round with an additional four points, making it 10-6 for Team Europe.

Round 2
Round two would see Henrik Windstedt (SWE) charge to the finish with solid, controlled skiing, winning a total of two points today for Team Europe. Co-founder of the event and big mountain specialist, Sverre Liliequist (SWE) would display a whole new side with a misty 720 and a stomped backflip.
Team Americas refused to be outshined , however and equalized the round yet again with Dylan Hood’s (USA) enormous cork 720 and switch tricks around the venue.
Captain of Team Europe, Kaj Zackrisson (SWE) also pushed his limits today to land both left and right 360’s – a first in his long career as a freeskier – after brief instruction from young compadre Nicolas Vuignier (SUI) the previous day.
Team Americas’ Josh Bibby (CAN) would win both his runs, but the favored talents of teammates Dana Flahr (CAN) and James Heim (CAN) would not shine in the showdown today

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