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Teen freak lands trick never seen before - CtrlF.XYZ

Teen freak lands trick never seen before

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At conscionable 16 years old, Mia Brookes became the youngest snowboarding satellite champion aft winning golden successful the women's slopestyle astatine the Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships successful Bakuriani, Georgia.

Brookes claimed her triumph successful benignant – becoming the archetypal pistillate to onshore a CAB 1440 treble drawback successful authoritative contention – arsenic the British teen besides secured her country's archetypal snowboard slopestyle satellite title.

"I consciousness similar I could cry, I've ne'er been truthful blessed successful my life," Brookes told reporters aft her win.

Brookes was excessively young to vie astatine the Winter Olympics successful Beijing past twelvemonth but showed fewer nerves connected the large stage.

The British teen sat 2nd aft her archetypal tally successful Bakuriani but pulled retired each the stops successful her 2nd attempt.

The 16-year-old, competing successful her archetypal twelvemonth connected the elder circuit, performed the highly analyzable CAB 1440 treble drawback – which involves 4 afloat rotations successful the aerial – to gain a winning people of 91.38.

"I really can't judge it," she said astir landing the trick, per GB Snowsport.

"When I did it, I wasn't definite I'd managed it, but I thought astir it and was similar yep, I've done a 14."

New Zealand's reigning Olympic champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott took metallic with a people of 88.78, portion Japan's Onitsuka Miyabi won bronze with 83.05.

"What Mia's done retired present contiguous is conscionable adjacent level," GB Snowsport caput manager Pat Sharples said.

"We each cognize Mia's got the talent, but this is her archetypal play connected the WC circuit and her archetypal World Championships truthful to onshore a tally similar that with each the unit of a World Championships tells you everything you request to cognize astir her."

Brookes, who is inactive astatine school, has agelong been considered 1 of the astir talented youngsters successful the satellite of wintertime sports.

She was conscionable 18 months aged erstwhile she archetypal tried snowboarding, honing her skills successful some the UK and connected European skis trips with her parents.

However, it's not ever been level sailing for the youngster.

In 2021, she suffered a superior concussion portion snowboarding and had to beryllium airlifted disconnected the slopes.

While admitting that she inactive gets a small frightened erstwhile competing, the Winter Olympics successful 2026 astatine Milan-Cortina remains a large extremity successful her life.

"The Olympic rings are astatine the extremity of the tunnel," she told Team GB.

"But I instrumentality it time by time and deliberation astir what I request to amended connected next. The Olympics would beryllium rather cool."

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