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00:00And now she wants to do it for the home crowd.
00:0424 years old, riding right out of here.
00:08This is her home valley.
00:09When she checked into the hotel, she walked there.
00:16Noemi out of start gate number 2 and just pointing the board straight down, straight into it.
00:22Full airdrop for Noemi Aki.
00:25And right off of her first and second feature, lining them up.
00:29The crowd here to our left is firing.
00:33Such strong commitment.
00:35This woman is so, so strong.
00:37She is always fully on her board, fully over it, fully on her feet.
00:42Yeah.
00:43We've got to wonder if she's feeling the pressure of that home crowd, of performing in front of her home fans.
00:49It certainly doesn't look like it as she has the pedal down, flying.
00:54Noemi Aki going so fast through that section and now still picking up more speed.
01:00There's multiple features stacked up below her as Noemi now sending in and stomping again.
01:07This girl is on fire.
01:09She has her work that she did all summer.
01:12She's in the gym, but she also spent the last five months in New Zealand.
01:15She is riding a lot and it shows in this full commitment to the fall line.
01:21What a run for the rookie, riding with absolute veteran confidence down this face.
01:28Never even a moment of hesitation.
01:30Another one with the grab.
01:32Noemi Aki blasting through this.
01:34The crowd is going bananas for her.
01:37She's already got a win.
01:39I mean, for sure, no control issues.
01:42This is going to be a hot, hot score for Noemi Aki.
01:47You know, you never know.
01:49Once you come in as a rookie and you place first in that first competition,
01:53that's its own set of pressure.
01:55That pressure to have that target on your back is different as an athlete.
01:59Everyone's kind of got their eyes on you.
02:01The media attention ramps up a bit and how you control that and then turn it into a run like this
02:07just shows how strong she is.
02:09So strong physically and mentally to be able to put a run like that down in front of the home crowd.
02:14You can see the signs.
02:15The flags are waving.
02:17We got the Virgil Didier fan club.
02:19Let's look back at this run.
02:21Super strong off the top.
02:23I mean, she came out of that start gate with the board pointing straight to the finish line
02:27and never really deviated.
02:29Yeah, and just freight training off that one going in almost up to her neck.
02:35Huge.
02:37Enjoying the powder turns, too, in between each of her airs.
02:42Yeah, and that one absolutely gorgeous.
02:43There's not another track in sight where she takes off or lands.
02:47Noemi, it keys so direct out of the start.
02:50Just a full rocket ride into her run going full speed, full intensity all the way.
02:59There we've got the Noemi head bobbing around.
03:02The French fans loving what they're seeing.
03:04We've already got a women's champion in skiing.
03:06Are we going to see the same in snowboarding?
03:08But nothing is decided yet.
03:10We don't have a score for Noemi, and we have a whole draft of talented athletes still up top.
03:32Well, the score coming in for Noemi Aki, the judges loving it, 88.33.
03:39We have another French athlete in the hot seat.