<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Zoi Sadowski-Synnott gave New Zealand its second Park & Pipe Crystal Globe of the 2024/25 season after the finals in the last slopestyle World Cup were cancelled in Flachau due to weather conditions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The women’s final, originally scheduled to begin at 10:00 Central European Time (CET) on Friday, was cancelled due to adverse weather, snowfall and low visibility at Absolut Park Flachauwinkl (AUT).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Results from qualifications a day earlier were instead used to determine the final standings, with Sadowski-Synnott taking the win as the top qualifier in the women’s event.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The men’s competition was also called off on Friday, with the men’s discipline standings based on four World Cup events rather than five.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Based on results from women’s qualifications, Sadowski-Synnott topped the women’s field with a score of 89.50, followed by Annika Morgan (GER) on 85.25. Japan’s Mari Fukada was third with 80.50. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twenty-four-year-old Sadowski-Synnott said she didn’t expect to end the season with the slopestyle Crystal Globe. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“To qualify in first and then manage to get this result and walk away with the Globe feels pretty unreal because I’ve never had one of these before,” she said. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It feels pretty good to hold one of these.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The New Zealander arrived in Flachau two weeks ago to focus on training ahead of the fifth and final slopestyle contest of the 2024/25 FIS season. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For Sadowski-Synnott – who won slopestyle gold at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games – it has been a long journey coming back from injuries, but her efforts in 2025 yielded back-to-back World Cup victories in Aspen in February across slopestyle and big air, as well second place at the Laax Open in January, followed by X Games slopestyle gold, also in Aspen in January.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her Laax runner-up result marked her first World Cup podium since 2023 and a much anticipated return to form that the New Zealander did not think would result in the season trophy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It wasn’t even on my mind, I just wanted to get back into this season strong and healthy coming off my ankle injury last year,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“This week has been awesome, and really fun to ride at Absolut Park and have a really sick competition here for Spring Battle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Bummer that we couldn’t run today with the conditions, it was just a bit gnarly.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sadowski-Synnott finished the slopestyle season on 312 points, ahead of Great Britain’s Mia Brookes on 300 points. Eighteen-year-old Brookes did not start in Flachau but took the overall women’s Park & Pipe Crystal Globe with a total of 500 points with seven podiums from a total of eight World Cup starts across slopestyle and big air.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It’s been such a long season, to walk away with this is really special,” said Brookes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In February Brookes claimed her second consecutive big air Globe after amassing two wins and one third place finish from five World Cup contests.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In men’s slopestyle, Canadian Cameron Spalding topped the discipline standings to give Canada its second consecutive slopestyle Crystal Globe after countryman Liam Brearley took the honours in 2023/24.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Japan’s Taiga Hasegawa and reigning big air World Champion claimed the Crystal Globe for the overall men’s Park & Pipe with 439 points across slopestyle and big air. The 19-year-old also won the men’s big air Globe alongside Brookes in Aspen in February. Hasegawa counts two big air wins and two as runner-ups to his credit in the 2024/25 season, with his best slopestyle result coming as a fourth place finish in Calgary (CAN).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It was such a good season. I’m proud of myself,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The teenager has already set his sights on the upcoming St-Moritz-Engadin 2025 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships in Engadin (SUI).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I’m going to become the World Champion (in) big air and slopestyle," said Hasegawa.</div>