Nico Porteous claims world junior freeski halfpipe title at Winter GamesIAIN MCGREGOR/STUFF Nico Porteous takes the win in the freeski halfpipe junior world champs on Tuesday at Cardrona, his home ski field. Winter Olympic bronze medallist Nico Porteous is also a champion on home soil after claiming the FIS junior freeski halfpipe world championship at the Winter Games. "It's my first junior world champs and to come away with the win is really cool. - Porteous* Age is irrelevant: Porteous* Porteous takes motivations from older bro* Porteous takes halfpipe bronze* Zoi wins bronze to break NZ drought* Porteous wants to be scaredPorteous took three attempts to nail the win. Miller landed his winning score of 93.20 on his first run of three, opening with a frontside double 1080 stalefish to cab double 1080 melon grab, and closing out with a frontside 1080 tailgrab.

Source: Stuff September 04, 2018 04:30 UTC