00:00Backyard, growing up right here in Verbier, part of the Verbier freeride team.
00:05Emilien Badu has been coaching him.
00:07He was a standout on the freeride world tour, and he knows how to get it done.
00:11I mean, he is on form right now and peaking at what feels like the exact right moment
00:17to fulfill a lifelong dream of winning a world title.
00:20Exactly.
00:21You know, he knows he has to win today.
00:24That pressure is probably on, but I think he'll grow into that pressure as we see him
00:30leaving the start gate, doing those first top, very steep committing turns.
00:36Yeah, and heading over in the...
00:37Oh, but adding a little bonus feature up high.
00:40High risk, high reward for Liam Ribeiro.
00:43Off the nose, just launching over that Niagara Falls, and a perfect landing for Liam.
00:49Definitely holding on to that till the end, staying super balanced on his board.
00:54as he makes his way into his next part of the venue.
00:58So he's getting way out here, and he's got a big feature.
01:01Launches a backflip, another perfect landing.
01:04So Liam Rivera showing that he knows every inch of this mountain.
01:11Oh, and look at this maze he's coming into.
01:14Precision required, precision executed.
01:17Hadley, that was incredible.
01:19Really incredible.
01:20You can tell this man has spent a lifetime looking at this face, finding perfect takeoff, perfect landings.
01:28He had a bonus feature at the top.
01:30He added a bonus feature at the bottom.
01:32Never put a snowflake out of place there.
01:36That was immaculate.
01:37Look, as we pan back up to see what he just did there.
01:41I mean, talk about leaning into the pressure.
01:45Leaning into the pressure and showing he can, and this is why he deserves to be so high in the
01:51standings the last two years.
01:54Well, that's got to put a little bit of a shiver down Cesar Baran's back, watching his good friend.
01:59And he's got the rainbow stripes there, world champion.
02:02As we look back at this replay, every piece of this, Hadley, was just perfect.
02:07It's amazing.
02:08This top air is just massive.
02:10You see he's able to, like, really hold on, activate that core.
02:14Beautiful backflip here.
02:15Look how steep it is below him, Derek.
02:20Yeah, there's, there's, I mean, the ground just keeps dropping away.
02:25And then he comes into this lower section where your trajectory off that feature has to be perfect,
02:31or you're just landing on rocks and then tumbling out the bottom.
02:35And everybody else rode out this apron, but Liam going out a little bit further to the rider's left
02:40and finding another feature to just build that line score.
02:43So now the judges are going to get to work as we see the local.
02:48Okay, here we go.
02:49The score goes up, up, up, way up.
02:51Oh, it's way up!
02:53A 96-point run.
02:55Has he even seen it yet?
02:57No, no.
02:59No.
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