Manon Loschi I 2024 Verbier Pro
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00:00 Back up, this is another extremely exciting young woman, Manon Lowski, 21 years old.
00:06 She qualified for the Tour last year and then she was injured so not able to take the start.
00:12 In the meantime, earning herself that Red Bull helmet, she's a peak performance rider.
00:16 She is another one, similar to Addy, stylish in everything she does.
00:20 She's got a bunch of big tricks on lock.
00:23 Will she unleash them on the beck?
00:24 We'll see.
00:25 You know, World Tour debut, there's a lot of balance.
00:29 Are you going to come out and just throw all the cards on the table?
00:32 Are you going to take it a little bit easy and just get a result under your belt?
00:36 We're going to see what Manon elects to do, but whatever it is, I'm excited to see it.
00:42 I am so...
00:44 She's so highly anticipated to come on the Tour.
00:46 She's been in the La Cruzada Freeride Club since she was 14 with the Freeride legend
00:52 Seb Machoe.
00:53 And she is oozing talent.
00:56 She's an explosive rider and I'm just so stoked to see her finally on Tour.
01:00 Yeah, I was lucky enough to get to watch her ski at the World Juniors in Capo when she
01:04 was there.
01:05 And she had an absolutely fire run there with a big 360 at the bottom that didn't quite
01:09 go her way.
01:10 But right then and there, kind of the whole Freeride community, at least in the junior
01:14 world was like, "Wow, they're big things to come from this young lady."
01:18 And we're going to see her unleash on the Freeride World Tour coming up shortly.
01:23 You can hear the drone firing up.
01:28 That's a good sign that we're about to see Manon Lowski debut here on the Freeride World
01:33 Tour.
01:34 She's been ripping around with Addy and the rest of that crew.
01:37 It's great to see all of these riders.
01:39 You know, they don't know each other previously, but they probably followed each other on Instagram
01:43 and then they just, boom, fast friends, locked in.
01:46 And Manon now, on course from start two.
01:51 Dropping in here with some serious pace, lining up her first feature.
01:56 Solid landing.
01:57 You can see her exceptional technique.
02:01 Yeah, really aggressive start here for Manon as she gets down into this rock band, moving
02:07 her way into the exposure on the rider's left side of the face.
02:11 There's nothing small below her, lining up, making sure she's in the right spot as she
02:16 has put herself into a serious situation here on the back.
02:20 And landing super clean there.
02:22 Manon getting on that downhill ski as she fires into the lower section.
02:27 This big open powder face just looks like an absolute joy to ski for these riders.
02:32 The only track on this section right next to the boot pack.
02:36 And it looks like she wants to take a chunk out of this big buttress here.
02:41 Going huge and managing to hold that one together.
02:44 That was a huge air from Manon.
02:46 Wow, looking up from the screen and out at the actual face in front of us.
02:52 And Manon now, big shift.
02:54 She tweaked out off the wind lip.
02:57 So going into a completely untested area on the piti back and firing top to bottom.
03:04 Manon Lowski.
03:05 But she is through the judging line.
03:08 What an entrance.
03:11 So mega.
03:13 That bottom section or that section inside is really lumpy.
03:17 And you can see she fully let her guard down.
03:19 If you're going to do it, that's the time to do it as we look back on Manon's run.
03:23 Right from the top, she was into the guts of it.
03:27 Sniper landing there, just riding out with perfect turns.
03:32 And this is another sizable air.
03:34 She seems to only go really big.
03:37 Yeah, so we've been anticipating Manon Lowski coming on tour because of her freestyle game.
03:44 But she just went all in on free ride there, opting to give the back its kind of classical
03:50 painting.
03:52 And Manon Lowski with the pure free ride line pinned top to bottom.
03:56 The score's going to be big.
03:57 Is it going to be-- oh, 94 points for the French rider.
04:01 What a great debut on the Free Ride World Tour.
04:05 Peak performance rider sliding her way into the hot seat with a hot run there.
04:11 Molly Armanino, she's going to slide on out.