00:00in the face he's wearing that world tour leaders bib and he was kind of psyched to go last he was
00:06saying i get to see everybody and then make a bit of a plan he had about six different plans
00:11coming into the day now it's time to put it on the line ben richards the kiwi phenom on the face
00:19last man for ski men this guy is so smooth like a warm knife in butter this rarely falls
00:27and also rarely makes more than six turns a venue so he pretty much only turns when he needs to
00:35change direction ben richards spinning into this double straight air out perfectly executed ben
00:44richards making clean work of that top section turning going fall line bombing over so ben
00:50richards done and dusted now he's got a time to rest relax recalibrate and we hope his decisions
00:57in the next 10 to 15 seconds reflect what that top looked like yeah and this man has such a nice
01:03three and i'm hoping that he knows the backflip's not working and just throws one of his classic
01:09signature lofted 360s yeah it worked well for joey leonardo minus the little punch in the face
01:15absorbing the lip and perfect for ben richards so no pop at all he actually pulled his feet up there
01:22even got a bit of a hand drag in there so the erin style points will be just docked up and up but
01:29then again showing i'm still a technical skier and i can make it through these cheese graters of a rock
01:34section moving through the rocks through the double and ben richards with a statement run there right at
01:40the end that it can be done on this point of torrent's face and he is now almost there well he's past the
01:48judging line so he's good the judges are now going to get to work rating that run against the criteria
01:53what do you think the highlight was for for that one hadley i guess we can see on the replay we'll see
01:57on the replay but no mistakes from my memory really clear clean smooth classic ben richards style
02:05so hyped for joey says ben richards just the camaraderie through the roof here at valtrons
02:17yeah competitors and compatriots there so the kiwi rider getting it done as we look back up to the
02:24top of this run with this aggressive start massive committing 360 as if he didn't leave the ground
02:32ready for that huge air at the top sending himself in to get quite a lot of speed make that traverse
02:39faster and then look at this hand drag three maybe that was the move it slowed him down just enough and
02:46perfect landing so so stylish derrick yeah 100 he absorbed that takeoff that the other riders said
02:55kick them out and then going big mountain billy goat with this high speed double out the bottom
03:01absolutely flawless run there from the man in the leaders bib got a first place in spain the judges
03:10are going to be looking at all of the criteria rating that against the other runs but an incredible
03:15run there from ben richards they've already spoken is it going to be enough to be on top it is a 92
03:21ben richards wins again unbelievable
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