Before Gu\u2019s last-ditch attempt, it was Great Britain\u2019s Zoe Atkin who looked to be in the driver\u2019s seat of the competition after Atkin scored a 90.25 in her first run of the final, putting her fully five points ahead of Gu\u2019s run one score of 85.25.<\/p>\n
With her back against the wall, Gu did not hold back in her final run, leading with her signature right cork 900 buick, into a left cork 900 blunt, then a switch indy 720 Japan, a left alley oop flatspin 540 mute, and a right alley oop flatspin 540 critical grab on the final hit for a winning score of 91.75.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was not easy. I\u2019ve been struggling with speed all of training,\u201d said the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually almost didn\u2019t compete because I was worried I wouldn\u2019t be able to do my tricks at the amplitude I was at. That was the first full run that I\u2019ve landed all day. It was such a mental battle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Indra Brown finished third behind Atkin on 82.00 to claim her first World Cup podium in what was the 15-year-old\u2019s World Cup debut in Secret Garden. <\/p>\n
Gu\u2019s win on Saturday follows a 2024\/25 season in which the Olympic champion battled multiple injuries, and comes just a week after Gu won the inaugural Snow League Freeski competition.<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Indra Brown finished third behind Atkin on 82.00 to claim her first World Cup podium in what was the 15-year-old\u2019s World Cup debut in Secret Garden. <\/p>\n
Gu\u2019s win on Saturday follows a 2024\/25 season in which the Olympic champion battled multiple injuries, and comes just a week after Gu won the inaugural Snow League Freeski competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Gu\u2019s last-ditch attempt, it was Great Britain\u2019s Zoe Atkin who looked to be in the driver\u2019s seat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25293,3893,111,43,139,69,25290,115606,100355],"class_list":["post-182066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-federation","tag-fis","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ski","tag-snowboard","tag-winter-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}