The Olympic vice-champion in big air skiing at the Beijing Olympics Tess Ledeux ranked 7th this morning in the slopestyle final, won by the Swiss Mathide Grémaud, ahead of the Chinese Eileen Gu. Slopestyle World Cup leader Kelly Sildaru of Estonia completes the podium.
The skier from La Plagne, winner of the last X-Games in the specialty in Aspen in the United States, was one of the favorites in the slopestyle final. Especially since she had revenge to take on Eileen Gu, eleven days after her big air silver medal behind the Chinese. Tess Ledeux explained that the eleven days of waiting and training between the big air and the slopestyle final were complicated to manage. “Training yesterday and the day before yesterday was hard, explained the skier at the microphone of France Television. I was very tired, I had problems in the last few days with back pain, I was a little sick. I tried to get past it all but I needed a rest“.
Tess Ledeux consoles herself by remembering that she will not return empty-handed. His family, who followed the events every night from his mother’s restaurant in La Plagne, are waiting for him at the end of the week to celebrate his silver medal in the big air. “It’s been two months since we last saw each other between training and COVID, said Nelly Ledeux. We really need to meet“.