Olympic skier Nico Porteous is on top of the World Cup Tour leaderboard after winning silver at the FIS Freeski Halfpipe World Cup in Calgary.
Porteous went into the competition just 10 points behind Canada’s Simon D’Artois, who finished seventh, meaning he would relinquish the yellow bib.
Stormy weather added an extra challenge, but on his second run, the young Kiwi landed a double 1440 safety grab for the first time in the competition.
His execution wasn’t clean enough to take the win with Olympic gold medallist David Wise from the USA triumphing.
“I’m super stoked on tonight, it was super challenging conditions, really strong winds and quite a bit of snow at the bottom but I’m more than happy to come away from this comp in second place after battling these tough conditions,” said Porteous.
“But the thing I’m most happy with is having the yellow bib over my shoulders.”
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