Kingsbury decided to try a cork 1440 — essentially a backflip with four full rotations in the air. It had never been landed in competition and he hadn’t practised it regularly
It was late last month at the World Cup event in Tazawako, Japan, and the 26-year-old from Montreal had already managed another ridiculous season. He had won four of five World Cup events to that point, plus another two gold medals at the World Championships — some kind of encore to his dominant season that included Olympic gold at Pyeongchang 2018, the one that secured his legacy.
He landed it, of course, because that’s what Kingsbury does. He nailed the trick, won the event, his fifth moguls title on the way to his eighth season-long moguls crown and eighth overall freestyle title on the World Cup circuit, both of which broke his own records. When you are already the most accomplished freestyle skier in history, sometimes you have to invent new goals.
The recklessness might even be growing on him. In his next event in Japan, the not-often-run dual moguls, he decided in the final — in the starting gate of the final, no less — that he would try the cork 1440 again. He landed it, and won another gold. “It’s pretty cool that it worked out two days in a row,” he says. Only Kingsbury could do something unprecedented on a moguls run one day and make it feel routine by the next.
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