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Press Release
23 September 2000
Four centimeters of fresh snow and a brilliant blue day provided the
perfect recipe for the Boardercross today at Coronet Peak.
A record of thirty three competitors, eleven women and twenty men,
lined up for the first day of the Primo Peak to Porridge, a combined
snow and surf event.
Organiser Evan Bloomfield was totally happy to see such a good contingent
of female entrants and suspects his "equal opportunity" status might
have helped. The sun was out, the snow was good and the porridge pit
was brimming.
A special feature of the boardercross was a pool of porridge. "Most
of the competitors managed to avoid this "natural water hazard" says
Evan " but a few just miss-timed their jumps and ended up I am afraid
to say immersed."
In the Women's competition the top two placings were identical to last
year with Queenstown rider Jana Gibson taking first and Regi Starinskas
from Victoria second. Masayo Ohgiya from Japan was the "dark horse"
of the event and rode solidly to take third.
The Men's was keenly contested but some suspect the rules of Boardercross
- Jostling is OK. No Grabbing. No Pushing. - might have been stretched.
Last minute entrant and nzski.com Terrain Park Ranger Simon Pepping
stayed out of trouble and by taking the lead from the beginning pulled
off a stunning win.
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