Railroads & Locomotives Tourist Railroad Profiles Swiss Saga For the second year in a row and third time since joining Trains Magazine your senior editor is wandering Switzerland by train While this is my first blog post from this trip I’ve been on the go quite a bit since I got here and not only am I somewhat running on fumes but I have some work to attend to before calling it a night So I’ll start playing catch-up by summarizing the first two days there is very little chance I will blog on a daily or even near-daily basis Swiss flight LX7 touched down in Zurich at 6:13 a.m. just 3 minutes after its scheduled arrival — darned good by airline standards considering that Sunday’s departure from O’Hare Airport was at 2:20 p.m. that would not have met the Swiss railway standard for punctuality Equally Swiss in terms of efficiency was that I had cleared passport control my contact from Switzerland Tourism (now known as “Travel Switzerland”) who actually came out to the airport at that ungodly hour to meet me and have coffee She had expected to have to wait for me after arriving on a 7:12 a.m After a good first meeting that also allowed us to wrap up some details for the latter portions of the trip where she went off to work and I caught the first of the day’s five trains to reach Chur [pronounced “Coor”] the routing was: Zurich HB > Arth-Goldau > Göschenen > Andermatt > Disentis/Mustér > Chur) you’ll immediately recognize this a tremendously indirect routing — I could have taken a direct Zurich-Chur train and arrived in as little as 74 minutes my route involved trains from four companies and of two gauges But my hotel room wasn’t going to be available before 2 p.m. And I’m here to report on trains in Switzerland this routing both allowed me to once again visit Gotthard Pass a favorite location [see “Gotthard Pass revival,” March 2024 Trains] and to cover the westernmost segment of the Rhätische Bahn (English: Rhaetian Railway but I’m mostly just going to go with the German abbreviation The latter point matters because the whole reason I’m spending four nights in Chur is to work on a feature on the RhB the amazing meter-gauge railway headquartered here The railway is going above and beyond in playing host The final part of my day was a short photo expedition to a couple of spots I’d seene earlier a flagstop about 8.1 miles west of the Chur train station is holding for the eastbound train to arrive Up early to for a short walk to the Chur station to meet two RhB officials and take a 90-minute train ride with them to Preda to visit the new Albula tunnel a 5.98-kilometer (3.72 mile) single-track bore that opened this year My hosts on this day were Paul Loser (which is not pronounced like it looks to Americans — we joked about that) the project manager for the Albula Tunnel construction and head of viaducts and tunnels for the railroad; and Markus Zaugg Markus — who at one time spent four years with Swiss Air in San Francisco and so speaks terrific English — was along because we had plans for the second part of the day but once in a great while Markus’ presence proved helpful We could not enter the new tunnel because it is in operation but I was able to see how carefully its construction had to be managed because the Albula rail line is a UNESCO World Heritage Site meaning the tunnel work faced extremely exacting preservation requirements And we did walk into the old tunnel — now stripped of its track and most other rail operation hardware — for more than 400 yards to see the kind of deterioration that made its replacement necessary and to see the first of the 12 cross-passages that have been constructed to connect the new and old tunnels as part of an emergency evacuation system The old tunnel will strictly become an emergency access route; repairing and preparing it for that role will take another two years It’s hard to take pictures in a dark tunnel I’ll share this photo of yours truly in the safety gear required for the visit This was taken by the safety spotter on duty since this remains an active construction site Paul left us there to attend meetings; Markus and I rode back from Preda to Landquart He oversees all the equipment and its maintenance and he was kind enough to give me an absolutely priceless tour of the facilities that repair and maintain the railroad’s extensive locomotive he is also in charge of the railroad’s 72-piece heritage fleet and all sorts of rolling stock of historic significance I particularly liked the two “Crocodile” electrics one of which would normally be handling the train’s regularly operating heritage train You’ll hear a lot more about this tour at a future date I had planned to come back to my hotel and take a nap But the sun was out — which apparently will be a rarity on this trip based on current forecasts — so I instead jumped on another train and rode most of the way up a branch line to Arosa I say most of the way because as we neared the station at Langwies I looked out the train window and saw this: I immediately jumped off and stayed there to get a photo of a train crossing that bridge You’ll have to wait and see it in the magazine Let’s just say it was worth spending a couple of hours there There’s more to be said about the Arosa line but that — like the rest of the trip to date — will have to wait Such a smart move to pop off for the Langwieser Viaduct pix — can’t wait to see the results of your efforts in Trains Magazine… anything for the shot Members enjoy 15% off any purchase in our store. Join Today Get updates and special offers via email from Trains.com brands while Matej Svancer clinched his third World Cup win in the men's event The slopestyle reigning Olympic champion had the competition wrapped up after two rounds with perfectly executed jumps of 91.25 and 87.25 meaning she couldn't be caught while Muriel Mohr of Germany came third on 143.75 "It was so awesome to do it in front of my friends and family tonight," Gremaud said after "I want to do some new tricks this season and step up my own levels." Gremaud has picked up where she left off last season when she won the Big Air Crystal Globe with three victories from four events There were no such victory laps in the men's event, as Austria's Matej Svancer claimed victory in a close contest The Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic champion started brightly with a first jump worth 95.5 but over-rotated on his second He then showed nerves of steel to land a 91.75 third jump to win his third World Cup title with a total of 186.00 Reigning world champion Troy Podmilsak from the United States finished eighth despite a promising second jump for 91.00. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. 2024·Freeski Park & PipeFreeski big air training in Chur (SUI) © Buchholz/@fisparkandpipeSwiss freeski stars Mathilde Gremaud and Andri Ragettli will be looking to reach new heights in front of a home crowd when the Big Air Chur 2024 festival opens the FIS Freeski big air World Cup season on Friday The festival marks the fourth consecutive year that the Swiss alpine city of Chur has opened the FIS World Cup big air season for freeski and snowboard Twenty-four-year-old Gremaud returns to Chur as the defending women’s big air FIS Freeski World Cup crystal globe winner after a phenomenal 2023/24 season that began with a win at Big Air Chur 2023 and ended with three crystal globes in hand after the final event of the winter in Silvaplana High hopes abound for Big Air Chur 2024 after last year’s freeski finals were cancelled due to weather complications with results from the qualification round results used to determine the event’s final standings a two-time Olympian who claimed bronze in big air and gold in slopestyle at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games will on Friday again face a strong challenge from World Cup discipline runner-up Tess Ledeux (FRA) The French skier won the Big Air Chur in 2021 and 2022 and claimed silver in the discipline’s debut at Beijing 2022 ahead of Gremaud Italian teenager Flora Tabanelli will also be looking to make her mark in Chur after the 16-year-old finished her first World Cup season ranked third overall Tabanelli dominated the qualification round of the last World Cup event in Tignes She also won gold at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games and claimed the big air title at the 2023 FIS Junior World Ski Championships A total of 15 competitors will hit Chur’s big jump on Friday to contest women’s freeski big air home advantage could prove decisive for Swiss skier Andri Ragettli who begins this season following strong slopestyle and big air performances in 2023/2024 Ragettli ended the previous big air FIS World Cup season with third place in Tignes in March after finishing 10th at Big Air Chur 2023 Ragettli’s main challengers include reigning big air World Champion Troy Podmilsak of the USA and last season’s third-overall finisher Miro Tabanelli (brother to Flora) Canada’s Dylan Deschamps also returns as the defending Big Air Chur 2023 champion in a field of 56 competitors Friday’s big air competition will begin with the men’s qualifications at 8:50 CET followed by the women’s qualification round at 13:30 CET In between morning qualifications and the finals at 20:00 CET the festival stage will feature performances by Zurich rapper Lou Kaena and German hip hop duo Mehnersmoos German rapper Bonez MC will headline the afterparty On Saturday snowboard will take centre stage at Big Air Chur 2024 First of six big air World Cup events across Europe Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) has appeared on the big air World Cup podium 12 times Andri Ragettli (SUI) has amassed nine big air World Cup podium finishes CBC Sports (CAN) - live streaming and delayed CT Sport (CZE) - delayed ESPN (Latin America) - live streaming Eurosport Asia & Europe - live and streaming JOJ (SLO) - TBC ORF SPORT+ (AUT) - highlights Rai Sport (ITA) - delayed Ski and Snowboard Live (USA) - live streaming V Sport 3 (NOR) - live Viaplay (GBR) - live streaming Viaplay Vinter (DEN, FIN, SWE) - live streaming Yle Areena (FIN) - live Freeski big air World Cup season preview 2024/25 Big Air Chur 2024 FIS Freeski World Cup start lists, livescoring and results Video highlights on FIS.tv Big Air Chur 2024 FIS Freeski World Cup photos As EHC Arosa (barring any changes due to the financial audit) will play in the Swiss League next season Chur needed a new partner in the MyHockey League EHC Chur will collaborate with EHC Wetzikon as of next season is pleased about the deal: "The partnership allows us to react flexibly to the development of our players and offer them targeted opportunities to play at a high level Such collaborations are an important building block in combining development with sporting success." For now, the partnership deal between EHC Wetzikon and EHC Chur is in place for one season whether they will continue their collaboration after summer 2026 Joseph Maria Bonnemain has been bishop of Chur although his appointment has opened the way to a phase of normalization answers our questions and explains the context in which he carries out his task as pastor As we walk through the main floor of the bishop's palace on our way to his office Bishop Joseph Bonnemain points out to me some pictures that one of his predecessors had commissioned to represent the virtues of a bishop He smiles and comments that they are an "invitation to an examination of conscience" but I notice the representation of the "prudentissimus" bishop According to what Josef Pieper writes about prudence in the prudent person "the knowledge of reality" would be "molded towards the realization of the good" and it seems to me very timely in the context of this meeting Monsignor Bonnemain explains that this "palatial" area of the House is no longer functional and that his intention is to restore it and make it accessible to visitors The roots of this episcopal see of Chur (in Spanish It existed as early as the 5th century; it is the oldest in Switzerland I converse animatedly with Monsignor Joseph Bonnemain for several hours We converse in Spanish: Bonnemain was born in Barcelona and speaks it fluently although with the occasional insecurities that are logical for someone who does not use a language on a regular basis I think that to know God and to know man is like diving into two infinities I am more and more aware that we have to learn In my youth I heard it said of the early Christians: "See how they love each other" I have always been accompanied by the desire to learn to love. In this one is an apprentice until the end of life. And it is also the theme of the "Fratelli tutti"from the Pope in principle twice a week: because I always liked it very much a television network wanted to make a program about me and among other things they filmed me doing weights; that's when the myth started that I do weightlifting - If a bishop does not feel close to the people and is not at the disposition of the People of God This is what the Pope calls "having the smell of sheep" for thirty-six years I was close to the sick from morning to night in the hospital where I was chaplain This very intense personal contact with the sick with the 1,300 employees and collaborators of the hospital from the head doctors to the cleaning staff Getting to know them and to get to know them - I have the impression that when the Pope is with the people It is as if the tiredness or the problems he carries on his shoulders disappear The same thing happens to me: when I am with the people - I like to say that the sick have been my great educators If I ever do anything sensible as a bishop it will be because the sick have educated me On some occasions I have told - although not yet in the Spanish-speaking world - that at the beginning of my service as chaplain I met a sick man I still had the mentality of a young priest thinking that in life everything is either black or white I was worried because this man was going to die and I did not want him to die without receiving the sacraments and he made an excuse: "Now is not a good time... I can't." I was getting more and more nervous I was getting more and more nervous: this man is going to die without the sacraments On the fourth or fifth attempt he looked at me and said: "Look I have a certain relationship with the medical world the Swiss association of hospital directors invited me to give a lecture at their congress; two weeks ago the national association of specialists in ultrasound diagnostics asked me to give a lecture at their congress held nearby in Davos have come to visit me here in the bishopric but it is a very different thing from when I was chaplain I have been a judicial vicar for forty years I have been able to contemplate the whole range of possibilities in that area twenty-five years dedicating myself to this I thought that I had already heard all the nonsense that the human heart can do; however That is why I often repeat that I have known all the pathology of human love But as I have become more aware of this pathology I have not become skeptical; on the contrary I have become more enthusiastic about human love I have become more convinced that marriage is a faithful and lifelong relationship - and open to life - between man and woman Since I have been dealing with sexual abuse issues I have come to the conviction that it is a mistake to reduce the problem to the abuse of minors by clergy The first is that we must also consider abuse of adults Where there is a sensual or sexual theme or contact between two adults in a relationship of dependence because the one who is in charge of spiritual or pastoral care is in a relationship of superiority with respect to the person he is accompanying or treating The second is that canon law should not be limited to considering crimes of abuse by clerics in our German-speaking dioceses in Switzerland thirty-five to forty percent of those responsible for pastoral care are lay people I have presented these two experiences on several occasions through the Bishops' Conference in view of the reforms of the Canon Criminal Law and finally these two issues have entered the current criminal law it is still difficult for the idea of adult abuse to permeate recent legislation and documents of the universal Church - It depends on what we consider "milestones" It concerns the administration of Confirmation to a group in a parish in Zurich When I administer Confirmation to young people I have a meeting with the confirmands a few weeks beforehand On this occasion the catechist had prepared the meeting in such a way that each of the confirmands had a few moments to tell a little about himself - who he was It was the turn of a seventeen-year-old boy lit the candle and expressed this wish: "I ask God that until the end of my life I do not lose my faith" At that moment I thought: just to hear that is worth being a bishop And another moment that can also be considered a milestone It is well known that in the diocese there is a great polarization within the clergy who think that everything should remain as it has always been That is the situation that I found when I was appointed bishop we wanted to organize a pilgrimage with the priests of the diocese to Sachseln who is considered throughout Switzerland as the intercessor of peace and harmony We wanted not only those of one "fraction" to come but also that by going on pilgrimage together we could come a little closer to each other a priest came up to me and said: "You know I have been talking to a brother priest to whom I had made a firm decision never to speak to again in my life these are two of the important milestones in these three years there is the publication of the Code of Conduct of the diocese concerning the promotion of a just relationship of proximity and distance a few months ago we published a document or vademecum for the transformation of the diocese in a synodal sense And we are preparing a diocesan year for 2025-2026 which will have as its theme "Pilgrims of Hope" it is a matter of applying the criteria of knowing how to listen together and not trying to implement our own plans on the basis of our own ideas or convictions We should act with the openness of knowing that the Holy Spirit is speaking to me through what others are saying from the parish council to the leadership of a cantonal ecclesiastical body There is even a point in the vade-mecum in which the bishop commits himself to appointing a new bishop synodically; I do not know yet how I am going to concretize it Pope Francis wrote to me that I should not resign until at least five years after my appointment; what happens after 2026 is open Surely the appointment by the Pope responds to the context of a complicated diocese with an enormous polarization It was a question of finding a way to return to ecclesial normality I suppose he tried to appoint others who did not accept and in the end he had no choice but to ask Joseph Bonnemain I do not think that from the beginning the Pope was enthusiastic about me but in the end in Rome they must have thought that it was a good solution since I know the diocesan Curia very well after working in it for forty years My opinion is that a bishop should not have noble or aristocratic pretensions and for my taste it would be necessary to do away with all those distinctive symbols there is a properly ecclesiastical religious organization and a civil one: it is the so-called "dual system" which is not unique to the diocese of Chur but to almost all of Switzerland.  When the State considered the possibility of taking over the collection of church taxes it made it a condition that the institution it was going to support should have a democratic structure Catholic organizations of cantonal public law were created which collect the taxes and also administer them The parish is not only an institution of canon law but its faithful constitute a parallel civil figure: it receives the taxes pays the salaries of those who work in the parish hires and fires them - including the parish priest - and takes care of a large part of the administration of the goods.  because the priest and those responsible for pastoral care can concentrate on the pastoral aspects it is clear that in some way the latter conditions the former because he who has the money has the power; moreover it makes all decision-making processes slow Forty years ago I thought that this system should be eliminated but now I think it is not necessary; it can be a good system if the people involved have the right position and mentality as faithful and while we are on earth everything material financial and organizational is perfectible The dual system has its pluses and minuses; but it all depends on the people taking great care of dialogue and exchange.  It is unthinkable for a Swiss at heart not to be counted on when it comes to making decisions A Swiss person who thinks "in Swiss" is committed in a responsible way to the common good at the local level: in the fire department I have the right to participate in the decisions one cannot expect that one commits oneself and then the parish priest or the bishop alone decides; this does not work I cannot appoint a parish priest in this way both the diocesan Curia and the parish public law entity publish an announcement so that priests who might be interested in changing parishes can apply A dialogue about candidates then begins between the Curia and the parish entity A discernment council is created: they interview them they ask them about their opinion on various topics and with that X-ray they choose one of them they ask me if this could be the candidate and I formally present him to be elected by the assembly of the parish entity of public ecclesiastical law; if so they present him to me so that I can appoint him but I believe once again that the recipe is to be close to the people understand them and motivate them for what is right in Switzerland the path we have followed is the synodal process of the universal Church There have been groups and surveys at the diocesan level and all the results of the diocesan surveys were summarized in a national document that was sent to Rome In this normal process of the universal Church there are voices or pressure groups that want to include the whole issue of the ordination of women the acceptance of homosexuals or other issues that are discussed elsewhere But they raise it within the general process a group of experts of the Episcopal Conference was created and I was appointed Secretary When I was appointed bishop I thought that after all these years I would leave the subject Now I am responsible in the Conference for the whole issue Its mission is to advise the Episcopal Conference on the measures to be taken last year the three "columns" of the Church in Switzerland - the dioceses the cantonal ecclesiastical corporations and the religious orders - made a specific research assignment to the Faculty of History of Law of the University of Zurich asking for a historical examination of what happened in the field of sexual abuse in the Catholic ecclesiastical sphere from 1950 until now We made all the archives of the Curiae available to them is the secret diocesan archive of our Curia; I opened it for them and left it here for them to read Now we have commissioned the same Faculty to carry out an in-depth study which will take them three years to prepare One of the effects of the publication of the results of this first study has been the emergence of new complaints: almost two hundred new cases We had already noticed on other occasions that every time the subject appeared in the media new victims appeared; we also saw this after the Conference held a public event to ask for forgiveness - It does seem to me that we have made progress I would like to remind you that in this matter I have always stressed the need for "less talk and more action" we have already talked enough about this subject but also changes at the level of ecclesial culture we must continue to work to ensure that this change of mentality is internalized becomes life and becomes everyone's conviction we have to achieve a Church that is liberated from itself; that forgets itself; that is not preoccupied with itself This is also the great daring at the personal level: a self liberated from the self; a self that understands that it is only found in the you and in the we As long as in the Church we continue to concern ourselves with the good name We have to be on the side of the victims and not on the side of the institution This change of mentality is slowly gaining ground we must take all the necessary preventive measures to create a relationship of distance and closeness I have learned two things: that abuse with adults must also be considered and that canon law should not be limited to considering crimes of abuse by clerics - It was only a preliminary or preliminary investigation when there is a possible transgression or an improper way of approaching things the data is first collected to see if there really is a crime a mistake or whatever; and it was up to me The press asked whether it was appropriate for me to investigate the actions of other bishops The conference of cantonal public corporations proposed that I be assisted by lay experts in law I was assisted and accompanied by a cantonal judge from French-speaking Switzerland and a professor of criminal and procedural law from the University of Zurich and I submitted it to the Dicastery for Bishops at the end of January 2024 - I believe that we can rather speak of "elements" or "circumstances" that favor abuses one of them is not sufficiently examining and evaluating the suitability of future priests and other pastoral collaborators At a time when we perceive the lack of priests we could think: this person wants to enter The selection would have to be much more serious We should ask ourselves a hundred times if there is suitability if there is psychological and affective maturity if there is a healthy way of understanding sexuality One of the measures we have taken as of September 2023 is to demand that all those who are going to begin a path of theological formation in order to later work pastorally both seminarians and non-seminarian theology students undergo a thorough psychological examination in order to clarify if they really have the basic aptitudes for pastoral work based on dealing with people in terms of affectivity I believe that not taking this into account has been one of those circumstances.  I think it does not help that in the Church there is little distinction of functions that the person in charge of the diocese is at the same time the one who judges situations Much more effort should be made to diversify the functions of government in the Church Related to that is also the question of why should clerics be involved in what is simply administration and management All this is also being raised in the Synod of the universal Church and I see that the approach is that of a missionary synodal Church What the Pope repeats about the Church going out: "uscire A Church that goes out is a Church that is not preoccupied with itself; that does not care at all about being "rough"; that is convinced that the only place to find God is in the most peripheral periphery that knows that when we try to take God somewhere we find that He has arrived before us And it is a matter of "contaminating" this virus I repeat once again: we need a Church that is not preoccupied with itself I also think that one of the concrete results of the Synod will be to make much more use of subsidiarity I am referring to not wanting to govern everything from the center but to give concrete solutions for concrete situations regional or national; to admit that things evolve at a different pace in the different regions of the world: that what is perhaps mature in Switzerland - for example something that for us is much more normal than in other countries - may not be so in other places It would be useful to take into account the different idiosyncrasies it is to take seriously the universal vocation of the baptized I think that one of the concrete results of the Synod will be to make much more use of subsidiarity: not to want to govern everything from the center - My episcopal motto is: "Man is the way of the Church," taken from the first encyclical of St and the essential is this: if God became man in Christ This is what we must do: go out to meet man my opinion is that we have to thank God that the figure of the "princely bishops" ("Fürstbischöfe") as some of my predecessors the bishops of Chur were called until 1830 and for my taste all such distinctive symbols should be done away with I do not want to impose it on anyone.  Surely my appointment responds to the context of a complicated diocese with an enormous polarization - When I am on the street and meet with people I try to convey the confidence that God loves us and therefore will not leave us out of his hand someone asks me if we are not already in the end time of the Apocalypse and if the world is coming to an end It seems to me rather it is just beginning There is a lot of work ahead of us until good can take hold that hope: the conviction of the possibilities of each person to know that in every man and woman there is a hidden treasure to be found It is possible that it is a bit covered with dirt and which has always moved me a lot: that all people are good although some have to discover that they can be good Subscribe to Omnes magazine and enjoy exclusive content for subscribers This coming weekend, October 18-19, sees the start of the 2024-25 FIS Freestyle World Cup season with the Big Air in Chur, Switzerland. The Chur Big Air weekend is a staple on the Freestyle calendar of the International Ski & Snowboard Federation (FIS) the best Freestyle snowboarders and skiers in the world battle it out on the Big Air ramp at the Obere Au in Chur Tickets for the event can be purchased on Ticketmaster. The Big Air Festival in Chur is a huge event with live music and entertainment.The event usually attracts big crowds This year’s festival is headlined on Friday by Bonez MC and on Satuday by Paul Kalkbrenner Big Air falls under the FIS Freestyle events The other Freestyle disciplines are Ski/Boarder-Cross A post shared by Big Air Chur | Freeski | Snowboard | Music (@bigairchur) This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The Big Air Chur freestyle festival in Switzerland will be opening the FIS World Cup season for the fourth time in a row this coming weekend international freeski and snowboard pros will wow the crowds with their tricks as they jump the ramp while popular bands move you to bust your own moves on the live stage before between and after the sporting performances overall World Cup winners—the crème de la crème of freeskiing and snowboarding fill the entry list for the first Big Air World Cup With a total of five competitions this season everyone wants to shine right at the start edition It goes without saying that women and men receive the same prize money and jump the same kicker at Big Air Chur First the high-flyer and Big Air Chur title defender Mathilde Gremaud who was the first woman ever to win three freeski crystal globes in March 2024 will be competing aiming to achieve his first podium finish in his home town in front of headliner Bonez MC  Both Swiss-Ski riders will face a tough challenge from competitors travelling from all over the world including Frenchwoman Tess Ledeux—Big Air Chur Champion 2021 and 2022— who is always a force to be reckoned with as are Olympic champion Birk Ruud from Norway Snowboarder Anna Gasser also hails from Austria and a two-time Olympic champion in Big Air has twice stood on the podium in Chur and is considered a favourite for Saturday 19 October alongside UK teenager Mia Brookes and the lively Japanese riders Kokomo Murase and Reira Iwabuchi All must descend from the top as part of the 160 freestyle athletes from over 25 countries whoa re competing The view from the 40-metre-high starting tower is gigantic—and when the speaker announces the next rider when the crowd in the festival area below cheers it's a singular adrenaline rush spurring the riders on to give their best performance: via the inrun Monster Energy congratulates team rider Taiga Hasegawa on capturing first place in Men's Snowboard Big Air at the FIS World Cup in Chur Big win to start the Big Air season! Monster Energy congratulates team rider Taiga Hasegawa on capturing first place in Men's Snowboard Big Air at the FIS World Cup in Chur In the first competition of the 2024/25 Big Air season soared above the rest of the field in Saturday's final 18-year-old Monster Army rider Rocco Jamieson from Wānaka took second place in Men's Snowboard Big Air and landed a trick never performed in competition before the Big Air Chur snow sports competition brought the world's best snow sports athletes to the Oberen Au mountain region in Switzerland The official FIS Freeski & Snowboard World Cup sanctioned by the World Ski Federation (FIS) marked the season opener in the Big Air discipline The iconic snow sports festival featured 85 competing riders World Champions and World Cup crystal globe winners Fans also experienced musical performances headlined by Bonez MC and Paul Kalkbrenner In Saturday night's final in a party atmosphere Hasegawa competed as the reigning 2023 FIS World Champion in the Big Air discipline the Japanese snowboard prodigy kicked off the session with a massive Cab backside 1800 Weddle grab for 87.50 points on his first attempt Hasegawa sealed his victory by spinning a frontside 1800 frontside grab – rotating five times in the air – for 89.75 points and the win with a total score of 177.25 points Hasegawa started his FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup season with 1000.00 ranking points on the leaderboard Hasegawa was joined on the podium by Jamieson After earning a strong score of 83.00 points for a switch backside 1620 Japan on Run 1 the young upstart unveiled a trick never landed in competition before: A technical 'Rubix Flip' – scored as a back roll switch backside Rodeo – earned 80.50 points for a total score of 163.50 points and second place After securing his career-first World Cup podium finish Jamieson now holds 828.60 points in the 2024/25 FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup rankings Make sure to tune in when the FIS Snowboard World Cup season continues in Beijing on November 29-30 and TikTok __title__ ] for exclusive updates from the 2024 snow sports season Kimberly Paige Dresser, Indie Agency. Inc., (949) 300-5546, [email protected], https://www.indiepragency.com Twitter Do not sell or share my personal information: An important private art collection assembled by the German fashion entrepreneur Uwe Holy may find a home in the Swiss city of Chur after voters in Davos—the collector’s preferred location to display his art—rejected a planned new extension to the Kirchner Museum Davos the people of Davos voted against investing SFr4m ($4.4m) in an extension to the museum that would have cost SFr11.5m ($12.7m) in total Among the private sponsors who had pledged to contribute to the remaining funding were the World Economic Forum and the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Foundation The Kirchner Museum in Davos Courtesy of Kirchner Museum it was on temporary exhibition at the Kirchner Museum in Davos until 5 January 2025 Königstein Station (1916) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, from the Ulmberg collection Photo: François Halard; © Ulmberg Collection “Retaining one of Europe’s most important collections in Graubünden would be a massive win for our canton’s arts and culture scene,” Parolini said. “Davos is a sports city and for culture, things are more difficult,” Beisiegel says. “But the snow will become less plentiful, that is a fact. Davos has to remain attractive for tourists in 20 or 30 years from now.” Kirchner’s Three Bathers by the Sea (1912-20), also from the collection Photo: François Halard; © Ulmberg Collection Holy, who is 84, has an estimated fortune of more than €200m and owns a second home in Davos, according to German media reports. He and his brother ran the Hugo Boss fashion empire before setting up their own men’s fashion brand, Strellson, in 1984. news19 January 2016Dresden buys back Kirchner painting seized by Nazis as ‘degenerate art’Expressionist work confiscated for Third Reich’s ‘shaming exhibitions’ returns to Germany Fukada trailed reigning overall freestyle World Cup champion Mia Brookes after the first round but the Briton was unable to land either of her next two tricks with the best two-run total from three attempts deciding the winner Having scored 87.50 with her frontside 1080 Weddle grab the Japanese hit a switch backside 1260 Japan grab for a massive 94.00 That was the best trick score of the competition and enough for a winning tally of 181.50 Her third and final effort was a victory run and she held the Swiss flag as she performed a simple straight air Yu Seung-eun of Republic of Korea qualified for the final in first place on just her second World Cup appearance But the 16-year-old took a heavy fall on her second run having got out of shape on take-off Thankfully she was quickly back on her feet but decided not to take her final attempt France's Romain Allemand took the early lead thanks to a front 1800 Bloody Dracula which scored 91.50 He could not match those heroics on his second run and was overtaken by Rocco Jamieson The young New Zealander had scores of 83.00 and 80.50 for a two-run total of 163.50 The second was for the first 'Rubix Flip' in competition - scored by the judges as a back roll switch backside Rodeo - which could perhaps have been scored higher reigning world Big Air champion Hasegawa who hit the front thanks to a cab 1800 Weddle grab The trick was awarded 89.75 which gave him what would turn out to be a winning total of 177.25 Jamieson was unable to improve with his final run and had to settle for second ahead of Allemand with both men achieving their first World Cup Big Air podium placings Missed landings on his opening two tricks meant last year's winner Ogiwara Hiroto could not make the podium But he landed a back 1800 melon grab to end the event on a high note in sixth The next stop for the freestyle park and pipe snowboarders is Shougang Park in Beijing from 29 November. Go big or go home: the challenges of building a Big Air courseSnowboarding's newest Olympic event will premiere in PyeongChang with a big ramp, big jumps, big risks and big rewards. 2024·Snowboard Park & PipeTraining ahead of the Big Air Chur 2024 FIS Snowboard World Cup © Buchholz / @fisparkandpipeBig names from the snowboard world are set to hit the big air jump at Chur for the start of the 2024/25 FIS Snowboard big air World Cup season this weekend World Champions and World Cup crystal globe winners are part of the 80-strong field of riders competing at the Big Air Chur 2024 festival on Saturday where finals are set to go down at 20:00 CET This season’s festival - which began on Friday with freeski big air - is the fourth time Chur has hosted the opening weekend of the FIS Freeski and Snowboard World Cup big air season Competition on Saturday will begin with the women’s qualification round at 9:00 CET led by the overall 2023/24 FIS big air World Cup winner Kokomo Murase (JPN) Since winning a winter X Games gold medal at age 13 in 2018 Murase has gone from strength to strength throughout her career including bronze at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and two crystal globes wins last season This year Murase is joined by her younger sister Yura who won gold in big air at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games Miyabi Onitsuka and Big Air Chur 2023 runner-up Reira Iwabuchi The women’s field of 30 snowboarders also includes two-time Olympic Winter Games big air gold medallist Anna Gasser (AUT) and last season’s big air crystal globe winner Mia Brookes of Great Britain who finished third behind Iwabuchi at Chur last year The men’s qualifications on Saturday will begin at 11:25 CET with a field of 50 men led by last season’s big air crystal globe winner Kira Kimura (JPN) Kimura finished second at Big Air Chur 2023 behind compatriot Hiroto Ogiwara his top result in an impressively consistent 2023/24 campaign that saw him land atop the standings by season’s end Kimura and Ogiwara will be joined by a further six Japanese riders 2024 X Games winner and 2023 big air World Champion Taiga Hasegawa one of the few riders with consistent 1980s in his trick arsenal Other strong contenders in the men’s event include 2022 big air crystal globe winner Valentino Guseli (AUS) and Norway’s Marcus Kleveland a three-time X Games big air gold medallist who is undisputedly recognised as one of his generation’s most gifted riders In between the morning qualifications and evening finals Saturday’s competitors will also share the spotlight with Swiss musical acts Happy For Real Vienna group Wanda and headline act Paul Kalkbranner from Berlin will wrap up the weekend’s festivities Anna Gasser (AUT) has amassed 18 World Cup podium finishes in big air has seven wins out of nine podium finishes Miyabi Onitsuka (JPN) has also amassed nine podium finishes USA’s Chris Corning has 10 World Cup big air podium finishes Eurosport Asia & Europe - live streaming ORF SPORT+ (AUT) - live Yle TV2 (FIN) - live Snowboard big air World Cup season preview 2024/25 Big Air Chur 2024 FIS Snowboard World Cup start lists, live scoring and results Big Air Chur 2024 FIS Snowboard World Cup photos PREVIEW: Big Air Chur 2024 opens FIS Freeski World Cup season The 25-year-old forward will play in the First League next season. This past season, he split his time between EHC Chur and EHC Arosa Maurin Tosio is a product of EHC Chur's organization and played most of his career with the team He suited up in 18 games for them this season but also played 19 games for EHC Arosa (six goals Tosio will be joined by Alain Bahar and Reto Amstutz Both players were under contract with EHC Arosa last season but will now play for HC Prättigau-Herrschaft Freeskier Troy Podmilsak landed a world-first trick in competition today The trick is so new that there is no name for it yet Podmilsak’s coach calls it a left-flat-360-right-pretzel-720 and the highlight of this trick is the rotation change Podmilsak does in midair there are hundreds of different names you could call it…The Berco Flip he made this trick.” Dean Bercovitch is a Canadian Freeskier who competed in Big Air and Slopestyle from 2012-2017 Aerial Skier Chris Lillis was quick to chime in on the discussion on Instagram jokingly suggesting a “Lay Full” (an aerial straight jump) Podmilsak is the defending Big Air World Champion after winning the World Championships in March 2023 in Bakuriani Nicknamed ‘T-Pod,’ the Park City native ended the competition in Chur in eighth after initially being on track for the podium resulting in only 115.25 total points (the best two of three runs count in the final) A post shared by Stifel U.S. Ski Team (@usskiteam) Here are the top things to know about Big Air Chur. For those of you who are new to snowboarding and/or perhaps unaware of its various disciplines, the big air event involves snowboarders sliding down a huge ramp (the ramp used for the big air event at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games is 49-metres tall - the biggest in the world) and launching themselves into the air to perform an epic trick The ramp and the singular trick is the distinctive feature of big air where athletes slide down a course and have multiple opportunities to execute jumps and tricks The Men's Big Air Finals event took place on the 24th February 2018 with each jump judged by officials on five criteria: amplitude The two best scores are combined to create a final result The event made its Olympic debut in PyeongChang but has been contested at the world championships and X Games since 2003 Qualification events are scheduled to run from 09:00 to 15:00 (local) ExclusiveReplayWomen's Snowboard Big Air | PyeongChang 2018 | Great Winter Olympic MomentsWatch the Women's Big Air Finals of PyeongChang 2018 the first ever discipline in the Olympic Winter Games where Anna Gasser wins gold for Austria Zoi Sadowski-Synnott´s bronze for New Zealand Big Air Chur is a major competition for a number of reasons it's the first-ever FIS Freeski big air World Cup in Switzerland and only the second such competition for FIS Snowboard It's also the first time in over a year and a half that an FIS Freeski or Snowboard World Cup competition will have an audience due to COVID-19 restrictions throughout the 2020/21 season the competition comes with just over 100 days to go before the Winter Olympics get underway in Beijing meaning it's a great opportunity for athletes to prove their worth and secure a spot on their national teams for the Games the starting field for the event is packed with international talents across the board Anna Gasser (AUT) is the headline star for the women's competition; the 30-year-old is the reigning Olympic champion in the event and also picked up gold medals in Big Air at the 2017 World Championships and 2018 Winter X Games won the first ever Olympic Ladies' Big Air Gold medal If Gasser wants to pick up another gold in Switzerland she's going to have to fend off a deep pool of competitors The New Zealand snowboarding star has come a long way since claiming PyeongChang 2018 Big Air bronze The 20-year-old won back-to-back slopestyle gold medals at World Championships and X Games going from underdog to "one to beat" She shares how it's a challenge she enjoys The men's field is equally competitive, with Olympic gold medallist and 2021 world silver medallist Sebastien Toutant (CAN) and double Olympic bronze medallist and reigning world champion Mark McMorris (CAN) two of the standout names of the draw Keep an eye out for Staale Sandbech (NOR) too; the 28-year-old is a three-time Olympian (silver in the slopestyle at Sochi 2014) and won Big Air gold at the 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada FIS Park & Pipe Contest Director Roberto Moresi is anticipating exceptional things from the first-time World Cup venue in Chur “The first event of a season is always special,” FIS Park & Pipe Contest Director Roberto Moresi Moresi told FIS.com. “You get to catch up with everybody, see familiar faces and lots of friends, and it’s even more amazing when you’re at a city event with all the fun around that. With the Olympics coming around many are still trying to lock in their spot for Beijing, and these events leading to the Games are of the highest importance. Many nations select their team during these last moments and events, which is just another reason why not to miss the Big Air Chur.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chur - Die Alpenstadt (@churtourismus) 2024·Freeski Park & PipeBig Air 2024 winners Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) and Matej Svancer (AUT) © Buchholz/@fisparkandpipe Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud once again showed the world that she is the woman to beat in freeski big air as last season's crystal globe winner claimed the win in the first event of the FIS World Cup season in front of an ecstatic home crowd The 24-year-old took an early lead in the women’s big air event at Big Air Chur 2024 on Friday as the top qualifier before winning the final thanks to a first-run score of 91.25 Gremaud’s winning run hinged on the precision of her left 1260 with the judges rewarding her for the smooth technicality of her opening run In her second run Gremaud scored 87.25 with a switch 1080 effectively cementing her victory and defending her title before her third run where she dropped a victory lap left 360 tweaked mute for the crowd “There is no better feeling,” she said after finishing her the night with combined score of 178.50 for the win The La Berra skier admitted to being affected by nerves in the lead-up to Friday’s event “I was actually super nervous last week and I didn’t really realise why when I got here it was so nice and I was super excited It’s even more nice to be able to win at home.” Gremaud indicated her performances on Friday are a taste of things to come for the rest of the 2024/25 FIS Freeski big air World Cup season probably new tricks and try to step up my own level so I’m hoping to do it this season,” she said Italian teenager Flora Tabanelli was runner-up putting her ahead of third-placed German Muriel Mohr’s score of 143.75 Austria’s Matej Svancer claimed victory after overtaking Tormod Frostad (NOR) in the third and final run Frostad’s first-run high score of 95.50 for a switch right tailbutter triple cork 1260 safety gave him an early lead but Svancer ultimately took the win with a total score of 186.00 compared to Frostad’s 178.00 Twenty-year-old Svancer admitted the new trick that earned him victory is one he learned after arriving in Chur ahead of Friday’s competition In his first run Svancer put down a left nosebutter triple cork 1620 safety followed by a switch left tailbutter triple cork 1260 safety in his third run I learned the last trick during training out here so I’m stoked it worked out,” Svancer said Canada’s Dylan Deschamps finished third with solid second and third runs of 86.50 and 85.75 respectively for a total score of 172.25 Full results Photos Video highlights World Cup standings Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) has won nine big air FIS World Cup events Gremaud joins Tess Ledeux (FRA) and Birk Ruud (NOR) at second on the all-time FIS Freeski victory rankings with 14 Matej Svancer (AUT) has won three big air FIS World Cup events with two of those victories coming in Chur schedule and how to watch liveGrab your helmet It’s time for the latest edition of the FIS Freeski Big Air World Cup featuring six stops across three continents Picture by Matteo Challe/Agence Zoom/Getty ImagesBy Matt NelsenA chill in the air can only mean one thing from a sporting perspective: the winter season has arrived What better way to celebrate the changing of seasons than the start of the FIS Freeski Big Air World Cup in Chur they’ll be eager to clip back into the skis and corkscrew through the air once more they'll have six chances to leave a lasting impression on judges and fans alike this season with the Freeski Big Air World Cup visiting six venues across three continents From nosegrabs and tailgrabs, to corks and dubs, expect nothing short of mind-blowing sorcery on a pair of skis from the best freeski athletes in the world. Read on to find out more about the Freeski Big Air World Cup 2024/25, including the stars set to shine on the global stage, full schedule, and how to watch Big Air competitions live throughout the winter. The Swiss freeskier stamped her authority on the Big Air World Cup last season She’ll be eager to pick up where she left out as she eyes the upcoming world championships on home snow and the Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 next season to stand any chance of holding the Crystal Globe once more France was the only skier besides Gremaud to win a stage of the world cup season she’ll call on past experience in an attempt to overhaul the Swiss skier this season but with one victory to her name in halfpipe this season she’ll be a serious threat for victory when she returns to the Big Air World Cup spun and corked his way to a Crystal Globe last season winning two world cup stops to boost his points total and top the world cup standings He’ll return with the hope of repeating as world cup champion but that won’t be an easy feat in a stacked field of competitors who won a gold medal in the event at Beijing 2022 failed to find the top step of the podium last season with a few months to reflect on his season and improve his array of tricks the Norwegian will look to return to victorious form once more No stranger to innovation and mind-bending tricks look for the 26-year-old to put on a show at the season opener in Chur nothing is guaranteed in a high-stakes event like Big Air or poorly timed takeoff could cost skiers a chance at victory Not to mention mother nature throwing a last-minute curveball such as a freezing blizzard or unseasonably warm day with a canvas made of snow and only a pair of skis attached to their feet expect the world’s best skiers to paint a dramatic portrait of freeski’s innovation during the Freeski Big Air World Cup 2024/25 The Freeski Big Air World Cup features six stops across three continents Freestyle and Freeski World Championships will take place from 17-30 March after the conclusion of the Freeski Big Air World Cup 2024·Snowboard Park & PipeJapan’s Mari Fukada and Taiga Hasegawa took the first wins of the FIS Snowboard World Cup big air season at Big Air Chur 2024 on Saturday Fukada was the first to secure victory for Japan and won the women’s snowboard event at Big Air Chur 2024 with a total score of 181.50 after putting down the highest-scoring run of the evening in her second attempt Fukada was trailing last season’s big air crystal globe winner Mia Brookes (GBR) after the first run in which Brookes received a score of 89.75 compared to Fukada’s 87.50 Fukada scored 94.00 thanks to a switch backside 1260 the first woman in World Cup competition to do so I was so stoked to do the run I wanted,” Fukada said Compatriot Reira Iwabuchi claimed second place behind Fukada with a score of 167.50 This is the second time Iwabuchi was runner-up at Big Air Chur after previously finishing second in 2023 Canada’s Laurie Blouin finished in third place with 163.00 All three women incorporated a Weddle grab in their performances on Saturday night Taiga Hasegawa (JPN) took the win after scoring 89.75 in his third run adding to his first-run score of 87.50 for a total of 177.25 The 18-year-old said Saturday’s result follows a difficult period of recovery “I broke my ankle four years ago and I got very disheartened.” Hasegawa was able to translate his disheartenment into two massive runs with a cab 1800 Weddle New Zealand’s Rocco Jamieson was runner-up with a score of 163.50 followed by Romain Allemand (FRA) in third place with 158.00 Jamieson impressed the judges and crowd alike with a signature backside rodeo indy pretzel switch which has never been done in competition before Allemand posted the highest-scoring men’s run of the evening with 91.50 in the first run Saturday evening’s finals were missing some of the discipline’s biggest names after two-time Olympic Winter Games big air gold medallist Anna Gasser (AUT) did not advance past the qualification round following two unfortunate runs who has 10 World Cup podium finishes to his name also did not make it past the qualification round Saturday’s competition wraps up the first event of the 2024/25 FIS Freeski and Snowboard World Cup season for big air The next snowboard big air World Cup will begin in Beijing on 30 November 2024 Reira Iwabuchi has amassed 10 World Cup podium finishes in snowboard big air Anna Gasser remains the most successful World Cup big air snowboarder with 18 podium finishes Full results Photos Video highlights World Cup standings The IT company specializing in the bankin and insurance sector has moved into its new headquarters in Chur Around 40 million Swiss francs were invested in the construction of the building The new headquarters marks another milestone in the company's history writes Inventx on the occation of the inauguration of the new company headquarters The building with the name «Mehrwerk» at the address Hofgraben 1 in Chur is a «multifunctional architectural gem» The new company headquarters provides ample space for nearly 550 employees and features a state-of-the-art digital working environment, according to a press release an underground parking garage with e-charging stations and an in-house restaurant In addition to the publicly accessible café bar and event venue «Bytes» on the first floor the building also features eight apartments on the top floor The basement is occupied by the Chur city archives which now have sufficient and appropriate space to preserve its holdings in compliance with the law Inventx has invested 40 million francs in the development of the project on the site of the former forestry yard «Inventx promised to create value-adding jobs in 2017 on the occasion of the vote on the land transfer of the site,» said Chairman of the Board of Directors Gregor Stücheli «We have already fulfilled this promise in the years between laying the foundation stone and moving into the multi-plant and we plan to continue growing just as successfully.» Emanuele Diquattro and Gregor Stücheli (from left; Image: zVg) «I can't imagine a better start to my role and I warmly invite our community to work with us on ambitious digitalization projects and to use our co-working spaces and meeting zones to share exeriences,» says CEO Emanuele Diquattro who took over as head of Inventx in November finews.com publishes on its own Web-TV-Channel interviews with well-known figures of Swiss finance. + More on this topic + More on this topic + More on this topic 2024·Freeski Park & PipeTraining action at the 2024/25 big air season-opener in Chur (SUI) © Buchholz/@fisparkandpipeThe 2024/25 FIS Park & Pipe big air season gets underway this weekend at the Big Air Chur where we can once again expect an explosive two-day celebration of music art and the world’s very finest big air snowboarders and freeskiers sending it large in Graubunden’s capital city Chur will be the first of what is shaping up to be the biggest big air season in World Cup history with five competitions on the calendar for snowboard With those stops showing off an exciting mix of classic and fresh venues on this season’s World Cup tour the fact that the qualification period for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games is now in swing Moritz 2025 World Championships looming as the final Park & Pipe event of the season in March there’s plenty to be hyped about this winter Read on for a deeper dive on what to look forward to on the big jump in 2024/25… The jumping off point of the World Cup big air season for the fourth year running the Big Air Chur festival is a true highlight of not just the Park & Pipe calendar but the entire FIS calendar across all disciplines and levels on any of the FIS World Cup competition calendars can you find a event with a top level music festival running alongside one of our competitions Big Air Chur is where snowsports and culture come together in one place for a weekend-long celebration of shred and we can’t wait to be back on the scene this season to experience it once again best and only permanent big air structure gets another workout this season as we return to the iconic site of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games BA competition for World Cup action for the fourth time there’s no denying that the Beijing big air venue forces you to stand up and take notice with the massive vent stacks of the former steel production facility that once called Shougang Park home looming over the massive big air ramp If you took a minute to talk to the athletes you would find out that ‘love it’ is the almost unanimous opinion of the venue in Beijing with unparalleled quality of the jump there allowing for some of the gnarliest big air competitions the world has ever seen Beijing allows the best to show their best and this season’s event promises to once again reset the standard for what is possible in a big jump showdown We’ll be ringing in the New Year with a new venue as the first competition of the 2025 calendar year will being us to the Austrian city of Klagenfurt for the one and only stadium big air event of the season The capital of Carinthia (Anna Gasser’s home state) and the sixth-largest city in Austria Klagenfurt is known for its Renaissance architecture and some spooky legends about about the origins of its peculiar place name Klagenfurt should come to be known in shred circles as the home of one of the World Cup’s most exciting new events with the freeski and snowboard big air World Cups taking over Wörthersse Stadium on the first Friday and Saturday of 2025 with each competition followed at night by some hype-inducing musical performers The Austrian tour to open the new year continues on in Kreischberg Freestyle and Freeski World Championships and a FIS Snowboard World Cup venue dating all the way back to the 1996/97 season (!!) Kreischberg always delivers an exceptional show and a laundry list of the world’s best riders of the past three decades have earned themselves a Kreischberg podium at one time or the other Kreischberg has proven time and again to be one of Europe’s finest Park & Pipe World Cup venues and we’re hyped to be back again this season After the Austrian big air swing we head stateside for what is shaping up to be the biggest week in FIS Park & Pipe World Cup history at the Aspen’s legendary Buttermilk resort No resort in the 21-year history of the FIS Freeski World Cup has stepped up to host slopestyle big air and halfpipe World Cup competitions for freeski and snowboard in the same week but this winter Aspen is taking on the challenge and we cannot wait to see how it all goes down at one of the world’s preeminent ski resorts The 2024/25 snowboard big air World Cup will be wrapping up there in Aspen with the crystal globes going out to the season’s top riders for the freeskiers there will be one more BA stop on the World Cup calendar… Once again the freeski big air World Cup season will wrap up in France’s iconic Tignes resort - the longest-running venue in FIS Freestyle history An on-piste jump at the base of the resort and the always insane French crowd on hand to cheer it all on FREESTYLE AND FREESKI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: 16-30 MAR The 2024/25 FIS Park & Pipe season will be coming to a close at the biggest event of the winter with the full slate of SB/FS/FK events hitting the famed Engadin valley at the end of March We’ll have plenty more on this one in the build up but rest assured we’re very much looking forward to bringing our 2025 World Championships to the world from one of the most famed ski regions anywhere on earth Leading the way in last season’s big air World Cup was the one and only Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland as the 24-year-old became the first freeskier in World Cup history to claim three crystal globes in the same season when she took home big air Gremaud claimed podiums in nine-of-nine World Cup starts last season and at this point she’s really only rivalled by Eileen Gu in terms of her ability to assert her elite talent at every single competition she drops in on Speaking of Eileen Gu…while we don’t expect to see her on scene at too many BA events this season it’s important to remember that she is the reigning Olympic gold medallist in the event and clearly more than capable of dropping a big jump hammers when the time so requires it Someone we do expect to see a lot of this big air season is France’s Tess Ledeux Second in all-time FIS Freeski World Cup victories behind only Gu Ledeux is a two-time big air crystal globe winner and the only two-time big air World Champion in FIS Freeski history including last time around at Bakuriani 2023 With Gu sitting at 15 career World Cup wins we’re truly witnessing a golden age of women’s freeskiing right before our eyes The battle between these three to see who’s holding the all-time record by season end will be one of the most compelling storylines of the 2024/25 World Cup campaign One of the wildcards this season will be Canada’s Megan Oldham who sat out much of the World Cup action in 2023/24 but made history at the X Games when she became the first female skier to stomp a triple cork on her way to big air gold there How many World Cup competitions she suits up for is still to-be-determined Also to watch out for this season will be rising star Flora Tabanelli (ITA) as the 16-year-old rolls into this season as a two-time reigning Junior World Champion and 2023 Youth Olympic Games gold medallist in the event Tabanelli locked in both of the first two World Cup podiums of her young career last season in big air competition and very much appears to be on her way to world domination in the event in the very near future Last season’s top dawg on the men’s side of things was the USA’s Alex Hall who finally added a crystal globe to what was already one of the most impressive trophy shelves in all of freeskiing Hall also finished second overall on both the slopestyle and the Freeski overall standings making for the best start-to-finish World Cup season of his career Following up A-Hall on the big air rankings was Switzerland’s Andri Ragettli making for the strongest finish on the BA overall list for the 26-year-old since the 2018/19 season Ragettli comes into 2024/25 well atop the all-time FIS Freeski rankings in that metric and should be counted on to add a few more tallies to that number this season Third overall was the elder of the flying Tabanelli siblings as 19-year-old Miro put together the best campaign of his young career in 2023/24 including his first career World Cup podium at Copper Mountain While he struggled last season in World Cup competition reigning big air World Champion Troy Podmilsak (USA) stepped up at the biggest competition of last season to claim X Games big air gold and has done more than enough to prove his place as one of the most explosive big air skiers on the planet the men’s big air field is outrageously strong and beyond last season’s top-3 and the Podmilsak Luca Harrington (NZL) and on down the line Ruud in particular will be one to keep an eye on as the 24-year-old sits in a tie with Tess Ledeux for second on the all-time FIS Freeski wins list with fourteen 2024/25 Freeski World Cup calendar 2023/24 big air World Cup results 2023/24 big air World Cup standings 2023/24 big air World Cup photos 2023/24 video highlights Japan’s Mari Fukada and Taiga Hasegawa took the first wins of the FIS Snowboard World Cup big air season at Big Air Chur 2024 on Saturday Competitors began their jumps on an in-run provided by surface manufacturer JF-DrySki before landing on snow brought in for the event. In the women’s event Fukada secured Japan's first victory of the evening in front of the massive Big Air Chur crowd with a total score of 181.50 after putting down the highest-scoring run of the evening in her second attempt. Fukada was trailing last season’s big air crystal globe winner Mia Brookes (GBR) after the first run, in which Brookes received a score of 89.75 compared to Fukada’s 87.50. In the second run, however, Fukada scored 94.00 thanks to a switch backside 1260 - a trick which she became just the second woman in World Cup competition history to land. Compatriot Reira Iwabuchi claimed second place behind Fukada with a score of 167.50. This is the second time Iwabuchi was runner-up at Big Air Chur after previously finishing second in 2023. Canada’s Laurie Blouin finished in third place with 163.00 for her 13th World Cup podium. In the men’s event, Taiga Hasegawa took the win after scoring 89.75 in his third run, adding to his first-run score of 87.50 for a total of 177.25. The 18-year-old said Saturday’s result follows a difficult period of recovery. The reigning 2023 big air World Champion, Hasegawa once again showed that disheartenment is long in the past, putting down two massive runs with a cab 1800 Weddle in run one, followed by a 1800 frontside grab in his final attempt. New Zealand’s Rocco Jamieson was runner-up with a score of 163.50, followed by Romain Allemand (FRA) in third place with 158.00. Jamieson impressed the judges and crowd alike with a signature Rubix flip - a tough-to-explain mindbender which has never been done in competition before. Allemand posted the highest-scoring men’s run of the evening with 91.50 with his first run frontside 1800 bloody Dracula, before losing the lead in the second run. Saturday evening’s finals were missing some of the discipline’s biggest names after two-time Olympic Winter Games big air gold medallist Anna Gasser (AUT) did not advance past the qualification round following two unfortunate runs. USA’s Chris Corning, who has 18 World Cup podium finishes to his name, also did not make it past the qualification round. Saturday’s competition wraps up the first event of the 2024/25 FIS Freeski and Snowboard World Cup season for big air. The next snowboard big air World Cup will begin in Beijing on 30 November 2024. 2025·Freeski Park & PipeTraining action at the 20924/25 FIS Freeski Big Air World Cup Kreischberg (AUT) Photo @fisparkandpipeBig Air Kreischberg in Austria this week is shaping up to be an intense battle for points between the world’s best big air skiers as they enter the second half of the 2024/25 FIS Freeski World Cup season a total of 73 skiers will compete at Big Air Kreischberg in Austria’s Gurktal Alps the fourth big air competition of the FIS Freeski World Cup calendar with another two left to determine who will win the Crystal Globe Competition will begin with the women’s qualifications at 10:30 Central European Time (CET) on Thursday The 17-year-old currently leads the Big Air World Cup standings after taking second place at Big Air Klagenfurt last week her third podium finish of the season after third and second place in Beijing and Chur respectively Tabanelli is trailed by last season’s overall Crystal Globe winner Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) who finished at the bottom of the finalists in Klagenfurt but is currently ranked second in the overall women’s Park and Pipe behind halfpipe specialist Eileen Gu (CHN) Gremaud finished just outside the podium at the final big air event of 2024 in Beijing in December after opening her big air season in October with victory in front of a home crowd in Chur Gremaud was also runner-up in slopestyle in Stubai in November Fellow Swiss skier Sarah Hoefflin finished one spot ahead of Gremaud last week in Klagenfurt Both Swiss skiers will be hoping to make up for their Klagenfurt performances in Kreischberg was runner-up in Beijing in December behind French skier Tess Ledeux who is not competing in Kreischberg and was also absent from Klagenfurt The 23-year-old’s victory in Beijing marked her 16th World Cup win and her absence in Klagenfurt last week ultimately provided an opportunity for other skiers to move into the top three with the women’s podium featuring skiers all aged below 21 including Klagenfurt winner Liu Mengting (CHN) The 20-year-old claimed victory just 0.20 points in front of runner-up Tabanelli and was Liu’s first World Cup podium It was also just the second big air victory ever for a Chinese freeskier after Eileen Gu won the Steamboat (USA) big air in 2020/21 Liu is currently third on the big air standings German teenager Muriel Mohr will also be eyeing her third podium of the season in Kreischberg after the 18-year-old finished third in Klagenfurt The result marked Mohr’s second podium finish of her World Cup career after also taking third place at the big air season opener in Chur in October Norway’s Tormod Frostad leads a field of 52 men which features a total of seven Norweigans including Birk Ruud who has amassed the most men’s Big Air World Cup podiums with 12 Frostad ended 2024 with a win in Beijing after he was runner-up in Chur with third place in slopestyle in Stubai in between those two events Twenty-year-old Svancer claimed third place last week in Klagenfurt to add to his season-opening win at Big Air Chur in October Miro Tabanelli (ITA) did not qualify for the Klagenfurt final but is also another skier to watch The older half of the Tabanelli brother-sister power duo claimed second place in Beijing in December and was last season’s third-overall finisher on the FIS Freeski Big Air World Cup rankings Tabanelli is currently fifth in the discipline rankings and similar to Frostad the Italian will be hoping to make up for his Klagenfurt points shortfall in Kreischberg this week New Zealand’s Luca Harrington comes to Kreischberg fresh off his high-scoring victory in Klagenfurt The Kiwi was awarded the highest score of the finals with 94.80 for his first run which featured a switch right triple 1620 esco double grab to become the first New Zealander to stand atop a big air World Cup podium and just the second to earn a World Cup big air top-3 French skier Timothe Sivignon was runner-up behind Harrington and the 21-year-old will be in Kreischberg buoyed by his second World Cup podium of his career Switzerland’s Andri Ragettli finished fourth in Klagenfurt and previously finished fifth in Beijing in December The 26-year-old was the slopestyle runner-up in Stubai in November and will be looking to break into the big air top three in Kreischberg The men’s competition will begin with qualifications on Saturday morning followed by men’s and women’s finals from 18:00 CET Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) has 13 World Cup podiums in big air Birk Ruud (NOR) has six World Cup victories in big air Big Air Kreischberg World Cup data page (start lists Freeski Big Air World Cup standings The 20-year-old defenseman has agreed to a one-year contract extension Koren Winter has been with EHC Chur since the 2022-23 season. He made his MyHockey League debut in the 2021-22 season and has played both for the U20 team and the first team of EHC Chur In his first Swiss League season, he recorded one goal and four assists in 38 regular-season games. Winter is the last addition to EHC Chur's defense for the 2025-26 season and how to watch live actionExpect fireworks when the five-stop snowboard Big Air World Cup begins this weekend in Chur Read all about the upcoming season and top athletes to watch below Olympic champions, world champions, and FIS World Cup winners will lock horns over five stops this campaign, meaning every jump could be crucial in the race to secure the Crystal Globe. Consistency was key for Kimura Kira of Japan and British teenager Mia Brookes who won the men's and women's Big Air overall titles last year respectively, despite not winning an event. They will have to be at their best again to fend off a star-studded field that includes the likes of Olympic champions Red Gerard and Anna Gasser. Below, we take a look at the stars to watch out for this season, the full schedule, and how to watch the action live. and how to watch live action","section_level_1":"news","section_level_2":"snowboard-big-air-world-cup-2024-2025-preview-schedule","discipline":"discipline-snowboard","odf_id":null,"module_instance":"CTAs - Blue Link","module_id":"028e795f-bcd5-462e-86da-9067756e22a7","link_tag":"Start 2026 in Italy The Olympic Winter Games are just a TICKET away 🏂❄️🎿 Sign-up to get a reminder of when the next tickets go live and all the latest news of your favourite national Olympic teams and athletes trying to qualify The Austrian is a two-time Olympic gold medallist in the event British teenager Mia Brookes won the overall title last year with three podiums and will feel ready to reach the top step having further proved her temperament with a slopestyle world championships title in 2023 Elsewhere, expect a strong challenge from Australian World Championships bronze medallist Tess Coady, and New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, whose full post-injury fitness remains to be seen. The Olympic silver medallist topped the Big Air World Cup rankings in 2021 and will hope to return to those lofty heights. View this post on Instagram A post shared by FIS Park & Pipe World Cup (@fisparkandpipe) Japan is also spoilt for choice on the men's side with 2023 world champion and 2024 X Games winner Hasegawa Taiga arguably leading the charge The 18-year-old is revolutionising Big Air with his breathtaking displays of skill and audacity Keeping Hasegawa on his toes is compatriot Ogiwara Hiroto, who was the first athlete to land a 2160 spin and sealed a World Cup win last season, and People's Republic of China's reigning Olympic champion Yiming Su USA star Red Gerard looked refreshed last season after taking some time away from the sport to rediscover his love for competition snowboarding and will look to kick on again in 2024-25 The PyeongChang 2018 slopestyle Olympic gold medallist made two podiums last year possibly indicating his desire to prioritise more Big Air events and will certainly be knocking at the door The Big Air Olympic champion reflects on what's changed for him after winning two medals at Beijing 2022: "I have more responsibility on my shoulders," the 19-year-old Chinese star told Olympics.com in this exclusive interview. Watch for more about the changes he's faced and the additional responsibilities on his shoulders since winning gold on home snow. View this post on Instagram A post shared by FIS Park & Pipe World Cup (@fisparkandpipe) 2024·Freeski Park & PipeOfficial training at Stubai ahead of the FIS Freeski Slopestyle World Cup © Buchholz/@fisparkandpipeExcitement and fresh snow are building up on Austria’s Stubai Glacier as the world’s best skiers get ready for the first event of the FIS Freeski Slopestyle World Cup 2024/25 season The slopestyle season opener returns to Stubai for an eighth edition this week with freeskiing’s finest taking to the world-famous Stubai Zoo Snowpark on Wednesday for official training and a mixed-bag forecast for the coming days leading to a revamped schedule for the week’s competition fog and clear skies - the weather forecast for Stubai over the coming days truly has a little bit of everything With that uncertainty looming over proceedings the men’s qualifications originally scheduled for Friday have been bumped up to Thursday between 10:45 and 12:45 CET while the women’s qualifications are slated for Friday and the finals planned for Saturday Saturday looks to have the most favourable weather of the competition window After last season’s Stubai finals were cancelled due to a difficult weather situation fingers are crossed and all hands are on deck to ensure this season’s event is completed in full Among the star-studded field gearing up to grab the first slopestyle points of a new Olympic qualification period are the USA’s Mac Forehand who leads a field of 64 skiers from 20 countries Forehand topped the 2023/24 slopestyle World Cup season after finishing within the top five in all five events including one win and two runner-up finishes helping him to claim his second career crystal globe after topping the overall 2018/19 season as a 17-year-old Forehand is joined by compatriot and Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games slopestyle champion Alex Hall whose accolades include 11 X Games podium finishes Hall finished just back of Forehand on the World Cup slopestyle rankings last season while nabbing his first career Crystal Globe by topping the big air season rankings Swiss ski star Andri Ragettli will be hoping to shake off his 28th place finish at Big Air Chur in October while Beijing 2022 men’s big air champion Birk Ruud (NOR) is aiming for a third Stubai slopestyle victory after winning the 2021 and 2022 events Other names to watch in the men’s competition are Beijing 2022 slopestyle bronze medallist Jesper Tjader (SWE) and Norwegian sensation Tormod Frostad fresh off a second-place finish at Big Air Chur 2024 Frostad was runner-up in Chur behind Matej Svancer (AUT) whose big air victory and home advantage could prove to be a winning combination in Stubai The women’s competition is set to be paced by powerhouse Mathilde Gremaud who opened the Freeski World Cup season in October by winning the women’s Big Air Chur 2024 The 24-year-old comes into action in Stubai as the reigning Olympic and World Championships gold medallist and is looking to defend her triple crystal globe 2023/24 season in which she topped the rankings in slopestyle Hot on Gremaud’s tails is France’s Tess Ledeux who counts 11 World Cup slopestyle victories and 15 top-three finishes among her many achievements The 22-year-old is set to turn 23 on finals day Saturday and will be looking for a little birthday magic to carry through some of the momentum from her back-to-back slopestyle World Cup victories from last season Many eyes will also be on this year’s Big Air Chur runner-up Flora Tabanelli (ITA) The 17-year-old won the big air and slopestyle events at the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Winter Games in January before claiming the slopestyle title at the Australian New Zealand Cup Premium event in Cardrona in September as part of a seamless transition from junior to senior competition Tabanelli will also be joined by Germany’s Muriel Mohr who finished third behind the Italian at Big Air Chur 2024 is another one to watch as she aims to add to her five FIS Slopestyle World Cup victories since 2017 Sildaru’s 10 X Games medals – including six gold; four in slopestyle – make her the most decorated female skier in X Games history Switzerland’s Sarah Hoefflin is also a slopestyle force to be reckoned with thanks to her 11 World Cup podium finishes including three victories and seven runner-up finishes The Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic gold medallist Hoefflin remains one of the most versatile and consistent skiers on the women’s FIS Freeski World Cup A total of 29 skiers from 13 countries will contest the women’s event at Stubai The women’s qualification round is scheduled to begin on Friday morning The finals will begin at 11:15 CET on Saturday Tess Ledeux (FRA) has 15 top-three World Cup finishes: 11 wins Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) has won five World Cup events for a total of 12 podium finishes Andri Ragettli (SUI) has 22 World Cup podium finishes: 11 victories Colby Stevenson (USA) and Birk Ruud (NOR) each have 10 top-three World Cup finishes Ruud has won eight World Cup events since 2020 FIS TV (worldwide ORF (AUT) Rai (ITA) Viaplay Vinter (SWE) JOJ Sport (SLO) SRF (SUI) Stubai slopestyle data page (start lists Photos FIS TV Slopestyle World Cup season preview Greg Halberstadt has signed a one-year contract extension with EHC Chur and will thus stay until the end of the 2025-26 season "Greg has developed steadily over the last few years and has become an important part of our team We are delighted that he is continuing on this path with us," Head of Sports Björn Gerhard said Halberstadt appeared in 37 regular-season games for Chur this season While Halberstadt will stay, six players will leave the team. Lukas Rubin, Samuele Pozzorini, Emilijus Krakauskas, Maurin Tosio, Timo Demuth, and Josselin Dufey will all no longer figure on EHC Chur's roster next season. It remains to be seen where they will end up next season. 2024·Snowboard Park & PipeCameron Spalding (CAN) in training at Chur © Buchholz/@fisparkandpipeThe 2024/25 FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup season is set to start this weekend at the Big Air Chur festival where a full day of competition for the snowboarders is going down on Saturday with men’s qualifications beginning at 8:50 CET and finals for the top eight women and 10 men under the lights at 20:00 local time We’ve already put together a pretty extensive stop-by-stop look at the big air calendar on our freeski BA season preview (check it out HERE) so for snowboard we’re just going to highlight the top shredders to watch in what is the first qualification campaign towards the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games While the Japanese team is the most talent-rich on earth from top to bottom - on both the women’s and men’s sides - it was 19-year-old Murase who made the biggest big air impact last season stomping three different triple corks on her way to a win at the Copper Mountain (USA) big air World Cup and coming within inches of becoming the first woman to land a triple cork 1620 at the X Games BA comp While she didn’t put down the 16 at X Games she did become the first woman to land a frontside 1440 there which along with her women’s first-ever backside triple cork 1440 and cab triple cork 1440 in Copper put her in some truly rarefied air over the course of the 2023/24 winter It’s not just Murase to watch out for the Japanese women as 17-year-old Mari Fukada seems poised to take a serious next step this season winning her very first start at Copper in 2022/23 While she’s only earned one other World Cup podium since then the footage she’s been posting this preseason shows she’s on a different level then she was at the end of last winter the Japanese team’s got the firepower to do some serious damage this season That’s not to say there’s no competition at the top as it was Mia Brookes of Great Britain who claimed last season’s big air crystal globe on the women’s side with three podiums and a fourth-place finish in her four season starts One of the most stylish riders on the planet of any gender Brookes brings a combination of originality and smooth technicality that few others can match on the big jump Still very much amongst the snowboard world's elite at 33 years old is Austria’s Anna Gasser.The two-time reigning Olympic gold medallist and reigning big air World Champion remains one of the most consistent podium locks in snowboarding and is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon The wildcard of the 2024/25 World Cup season in the women’s field is Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand arguably the most talented all-around rider in the world Sadowski-Synnott missed most of last season due to injury but when she was on the scene she made sure to make a statement as at the Edmonton Style Experience where she became the first woman to stomp a switch backside 1260 in competition Hailey Langland of the USA and Germany’s Annika Morgan are a few of the other names to keep an eye for the women with the Japanese army leading the way in big air snowboarding Last season’s men’s big air crystal globe went to Kira Kimura as the 20-year-old took 2023/24’s top prize in his first full World Cup campaign highlighted by two podiums and a fifth place finish The reigning World Champion is 18-year-old Taiga Hasegawa who also took the win at last season’s Edmonton competition and ended up third on the 2023/24 big air rankings Kimura and Takeru Otsuka swept the podium at the season opener in Big Air Chur last season and now in 2024/25 the Japanese team is so strong that Otsuka has been bounced off of it Fully seven of the 12 men’s big air podium spots available - and three of the four victories - went to Japanese riders last season with Ryoma Kimata and Hiroaki Kunitake also nabbing top-3’s and Kunitake especially standing out for his frontside quad cork 1800 stomped on his way to a victory at Copper The list of accolades earned by the Japanese men last season is truly astonishing and we see no reason why that trend will change in 2024/25 The long victory that did not belong to Japan in men’s big air World Cup competition last season went to the reigning Olympic big air gold medallist as Su Yiming stepped up on home soil for the win in Beijing Su looks to be the top challenger to the Japanese dominance this season Looking beyond the Asian contingent you can still find plenty of heavyweights though even the best on that list have their work cut out for them this season Norway’s Marcus Kleveland is as talented and progressive as anybody who has ever strapped on a snowboard and so many never-been-dones to his credit that we could write a book about it the 25-year-old is battling his way back from an injury-riddled 2023/24 season and what he’s able to put together this season remains to be seen Kleveland’s teammate Mons Roisland has actually been the more successful Norwegian over the past couple of years earning Beijing 2022 big air bronze and backing that up with Bakuriani 2023 World Championships silver the following year Sean Fitzsimons and Chris Corning are all exceptional shredders but podiums have been hard to come by for snowboarding’s birth nation lately with only Gerard landing in a BA World Cup top-3 last season Canada’s Liam Brearley and Cameron Spalding are rising through the ranks over the past couple of seasons but their success has largely come in slopestyle with Brearley taking last season’s slope crystal globe and Spalding opening 2024/25 with his first career victory at Cardrona (NZL) 2022/23 big air crystal globe winner Valentino Guseli of Australia Sam Vermaat and Niek van der Velden of the Netherlands Italy’s Ian Matteoli and Chaeun Lee of Korea are a few of the other names on the men’s side to keep an eye on this season 2024/25 Park & Pipe World Cup calendar 2023/24 big air World Cup results 2023/24 big air World Cup standings 2023/24 big air World Cup photos 2023/24 video highlights The 20-year-old netminder has already suited up a few times with EHC Chur this past season via B-license A product of EV Zug, Alessio Brun was under contract with EHC Arosa (MyHockey League) this season but got to play a few games in the Swiss League with EHC Chur making a good impression as team manager Björn Gerhard confirms: "Alessio impressed us with his style of play and was an important back-up in the most important phase of the past season He made a significant contribution to reaching the playoffs." In five games with EHC Chur A 36-year-old woman fell into the Plessur in Chur on Tuesday evening She then floated around 1.8 kilometers downstream She could only be pulled out of the water shortly before the confluence with the Rhine the Operations Centre received a report that a person had fallen into the Plessur at Lindenquai the Graubünden cantonal police said on Wednesday A Rega crew located the woman around 800 meters before the confluence with the Rhine A patrol from the Chur municipal police was able to detain her The woman first had to be rescued from the Plessur canal using an aerial rescue device until she could be taken to the cantonal hospital by ambulance The Care Team Grischun was deployed to assist relatives and eyewitnesses The circumstances of the accident are still being investigated The 26-year-old forward has agreed to terms with EHC Lustenau and will suit up for the Austrian team in the 2025-26 season EHC Chur announced two weeks ago that Timo Demuth would no longer play for them next season Demuth had been part of the Swiss League team's organization since the 2021-22 season he appeared in 35 regular-season games for Chur He also played in three playoff games but did not put his name on the scoresheet As EHC Chur announces Jan Zwissler is leaving them and will finish the season with EHC Frauenfeld instead It will not be his first time with the MyHockey League team The move stems from the forward's initiative Talks resulted in a contract termination by mutual agreement Zwissler recorded one goal and six assists Both players will stick around as part of the Swiss League team for an additional season Lars Frei and Fabian Eggenberger have received one-year extensions with EHC Chur initially joined the Swiss League team in 2022 when they were still in the MyHockey League ”It is great to keep these two team pillars in Chur" "They are important building blocks for our organization." 30-year-old Frei appeared in all of Chur's 45 regular season games but still put up four goals and 14 assists The 27-year-old defenseman has agreed to stay with the Swiss League team for another season "Serge embodies exactly what our EHC stands for: passion puts the team first and makes us stronger as a team We are proud that he will stay with us!” team manager Björn Gerhard said Serge Weber is a product of EHC Kloten's organization. He joined EHC Chur late in the 2023-24 season and was part of the team which was promoted to the Swiss League he has recorded nine assists in 25 games for Chur This article is provided courtesy of the Navy Chaplains and Chaplain Nathan Solomon A Cape Cod native has completed training as a Navy Chaplain Lieutenant Junior Grade Kai Chur (STH’16) China native and Cape Cod Massachusetts resident recently graduated from the Naval Chaplaincy School in Newport He is a graduate of Boston University School of Theology and an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church Chur will report to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton where he will serve as an infantry battalion chaplain in the First Marine Division His desire to serve as a chaplain was sparked by a chance encounter with a Marine in a Walmart parking lot As he and the person parked next to him were loading groceries an extremely loud bang rang out throughout the lot Chur explained the man was paralyzed with fear Chur went over to help calm the distressed man he was calm enough to thank Chur for his assistance and continue on his way Chur said the experience weighed heavily on his heart stirring a desire to serve members of the military someday open a door for me so I can be one of them and serve them,” he prayed Chur began his journey to become a Navy chaplain “Life is a journey of trusting God,” Chur said “For those who have a desire to serve in this capacity If you have heard the call of God to become a chaplain but you are hesitant be bold and trust the process because God’s timing and calling for your life is perfect.” Navy Chaplains provide religious ministry to their own facilitate for the religious needs of other faiths There are more than 800 Navy Chaplains from more than 100 different religious organizations and are deployed world-wide with Navy View all posts We'll keep you updated on the latest news and events happening at STH. 7 months agoDuration 2:05:26FIS Snowboard World Cup Chur: Snowboard Big Air7 months agoSportsDuration 2:05:26Watch the FIS snowboard World Cup big air event from Chur, Switzerland. Video evidence, NHLer testimony raise questions in world junior sexual assault trialThe National |May 2Video4:45 Trump repeats 51st state taunt as Carney prepares for White House visitThe National |May 5Video11:28 It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem The 22-year-old forward has signed a contract with a validity throughout the 2025-26 season a few kilometers up the river Plessur will lead him to his new home for the coming season The 21-year-old forward has agreed to a one-year contract which will expire at the end of the 2025-26 season Darels Dukurs is already familiar with EHC Chur, as he plays for them via B-license. The SCL Tigers forward convinced the staff of the Swiss League team of his qualities and earned a contract for the next season The Latvian has been part of the SCL Tigers' organization since the 2017-18 season.  He made his National League debut in the 2021-22 season. This season, he has recorded 13 goals and eleven assists in 38 games for EHC Chur Part of the Swiss League promotion squad last spring the forward will stick around for another season As EHC Chur informed earlier today they have signed Fabian Berri to an extension His contract - which would have run out this spring - now lasts until 2026 "Fabian is staying with us - and that is a clear sign" we are consistently continuing on our upward path." So far this season, Berri has suited up 23 times, recording seven goals and eight assists. Prior to his time with Chur, he played for fellow Swiss League members HC Thurgau and the GCK Lions The Hockey Club Lugano announces the extension of Dominic Nyffeler's contract until the end of the 2024/25 season The 32-year-old goaltender joined Cornèr Arena last October following Joren Van Pottelberghe’s serious injury and has played in three games so far the club has reached an agreement with Chur for the loan of defenseman Leandro Hausheer via a B-license He will play the Swiss League playoffs with the Grisons team while HCL retains the option to recall the 21-year-old defenseman if needed Subscribe to the official Hockey Club Lugano Newsletter to stay updated on the latest news from the Bianconeri world We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your experience and to analyze our website traffic For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy By clicking "Accept," you consent to the collection of data You can change your cookie settings at any time and reject them, except for strictly necessary functional cookies. 7 months agoDuration 3:44Austria's Matej Svancer wins Freeski big air gold in Chur for a 2nd time7 months agoSportsDuration 3:44Austria's Matej Svancer won gold at the 2024 Freeski big Air World Cup in Chur, Switzerland, in the same event where he won his first-career World Cup title, in 2021. It is the season for contract extensions: the Swiss League team secures the services of several of their key players for the future Simon Marha, Jannik Canova, and Dario Bartholet have agreed to one-year contracts and will stay with EHC Chur at least until the end of the 2025-26 season. The same applies to Vincent Despont, who only recently joined the Swiss League team from EHC Visp has decided to commit to the organization for the long term The forward of the Biancoblù will suit up for EHC Chur in the Swiss League via B-license reserves the right to recall Muggli at any time in case of need In eight games with the Biancoblù this season Muggli scored one goal while averaging 4:42 minutes on the ice per game.