CALGARY — Big air, soft landing.
Freestyle skiers and snowboarders rocketing off a jump into an enormous air bag Monday at Canada Olympic Park compared it to jumping into a giant marshmallow. …
The behemoth landing cushion — 17 metres long and 11 metres wide — is the first one in Alberta and one of the few air bags in Canada. …
… The International Olympic Committee recently added freestyle and snowboard slopestyle, as well as women’s ski halfpipe to its Winter Games menu.
CFSA Chief Operating Officer Peter Judge estimates there’s between six and a dozen air bags operating in the country …
This version is only for age group athletes. The big guns still train into water.
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