Snowboarder Brooke D’Hondt says it’s a ‘little nostalgic’ for her as she gets set to compete in a World Cup event in Calgary where her ‘halfpipe career started’
Brooke D’Hondt has dropped into Calgary’s halfpipe a 10-minute drive from home more times than she can count, but the snowboarder will compete in her first World Cup there starting Thursday.
“I definitely would not have competed at the Olympics if it wasn’t for having that pipe in my backyard. I think it kind of set me on the path to go to the Games at 16 years old.”Now 17, she’s coming off the best World Cup result of her career last week in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., where D’Hondt placed fifth.“That was a goal of mine to put that in my run this year,” D’Hondt said. “I think the Olympics kind of showed me what’s possible for my snowboard career.
Men’s slopestyle qualifying is Friday, followed by the women’s Saturday and Sunday’s final in the penultimate World Cup of the slopestyle season ending March 24-26 in Silvaplana, Switzerland. The 21-year-old placed seventh in last month’s X Games in Aspen, Colo., and sixth last year in Beijing. The Canadian was invited again this year as an alternate, but D’Hondt declined her invitation to the January event.
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