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00:00 With a competition mindset that just riding in powder with your friends 24 years old
00:04 He is coming off a string of great results two podiums in a row in the last two free ride world tour comps
00:10 And he is looking to to better his last finish where he was second and would love to put himself on top at home
00:16 Third overall right now Liam Rivera from right here in Verbier is on the back
00:22 His dad is in the audience and I've never seen him look more nervous to see Liam ride from the top of the Becht de Rossin
00:29 Competition, but he is making his way through
00:31 It's a good 50 degrees up at that top section of the dog's leg
00:36 Making his way through the bowl there to find his first features
00:43 And Liam riding with some speed here not holding back
00:48 Putting some technical turns in
00:52 Yeah, once you see jump turns, it's enough another testament to how steep an area is
00:57 Yeah, and we saw Michael go through here on the tow side edge
01:00 But Liam having to do it on the heel side adds even another element of difficulty to that
01:04 Taking the same mandatory as Michael did
01:07 And the snow is pretty good in here, I think some of the slough has been cleared out so
01:13 Still have to be conscious of that that he's managing it. Well taking some air there catching some speed
01:21 Airing into the central that is a bold move as you see now as we pull back Liam
01:27 There's nothing under him
01:28 But ginormous cliffs and one of those is going to be his aim the Hollywood cliff straight off the nose Liam Rivera stomps it
01:36 That was huge
01:38 Enormous air and just getting that speed under control as he moves down to the next section
01:44 There's still lots to play for it down here. That's another big feature. He's lining up
01:50 But gets caught up on the landing a little bit
01:53 Like slight over rotation
01:56 Yeah, I think so and Liam now still not letting go with a backflip bringing it around to his feet perfectly
02:03 Liam Rivera showing that he is at home in his backyard with an incredible display of freestyle at the bottom of the back
02:12 They have us
02:13 Incredible run there from the local rider this guy
02:16 He knows he knows exactly where he's going never a hint of getting lost that had all the elements in that run
02:21 Yeah, he got into like the most serious terrain on the face. We saw a 360 we saw a backflip
02:26 There was a slight control issue and the landing of the three, but I think that was an outstanding run
02:32 absolutely outstanding
02:35 I
02:37 Alright well we look back here at the run of Liam Rivera Siobhan
02:52 This is so exposed and he's on that heel side head so much be terrified that is really hard
02:56 He held that super super well
02:57 It's like when you look downwards when you're standing on there and you're bored
03:00 You just don't want to tip forward and how he fit like how he hit that cross court set him up perfectly
03:05 But what he was lining up next
03:07 He's keeping his foot at he going beautifully
03:11 Again, you can see how steep it is and that was absolutely getting the Indy Gravin
03:16 beautiful
03:18 Tweaking it up
03:20 Bringing in the steers. He's a very stylish rider
03:23 Here we see that mistake on the front three the board just bouncing out from under him a little bit of continued rotation
03:30 As he landed and you could see his hands go up as he kind of recognized exactly that little bit of a mistake and with
03:37 The perfection of John Penfield's run the judges they got to get to work Liam had definitely some added elements
03:43 But John had his freestyle up high in the run
03:45 So it's going to be a tricky one for the judges to score
03:47 But I think perfection is going to be what it takes today to win on the back
03:50 Absolutely perfection is what you do want to see at the end of the day and except for his little control issue the rest of
03:55 The run was absolutely stunning
03:59 All right, well here we see the score is coming in for Liam it is a big 189 flat
04:05 So he moves into second just behind Jonathan Penfield the judges