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Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Kick Off With Slopestyle Debut.
ROSA KHUTOR, Russia, February 6 (R-Sport) – The first competition got under way at the Sochi Winter Games on Thursday as the sport of slopestyle made its much-anticipated Olympic debut.
A day before the opening ceremony in Sochi, British snowboarder Billy Morgan, a 24-year-old former circus acrobat, became the first athlete to compete, streaking over the slopestyle hill’s rails and jumps at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
Thursday’s slopestyle qualifying cuts the field of 28 men down to 12 for Saturday’s final, which will be the first medal event of the Games.
Four athletes qualified directly from the first heat, Norway’s Staale Sandbech leading the way on 94.50 points, ahead of Finland’s Peetu Piironen, Canada’s Sebastian Toutant and British boarder Jamie Nicholls.
http://en.ria.ru/sochi2014/20140206/187252737/Sochi-2014-Winter-Olympics-Kick-Off-With-Slopestyle-Debut.html