Moguls GOAT Kingsbury goes for a quadruple double at the world championships

Jesse Campigotto · CBC Sports

· Posted: Mar 18, 2025 4:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

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March Madness is simply a registered trademark of the NCAA, but you could reason that the wintertime Olympic sports satellite is adjacent madder than assemblage hoops close now.

This period has already brought america the satellite championships successful bobsleigh, skeleton and some long- and short-track velocity skating. The women's curling satellite rubric volition beryllium awarded this weekend, portion fig skating, freestyle skiing and snowboarding volition besides implicit their worlds by the extremity of March. Like they say: successful similar a lion… retired similar a lion.

For today, let's absorption connected the freestyle skis and snowboard worlds successful Switzerland, wherever qualifying is underway and medals volition beryllium up for grabs starting Wednesday done March 30 successful events specified arsenic moguls, aerials, halfpipe, large air, slopestyle, skis transverse and snowboard cross.

These satellite championships are held lone successful odd-numbered years, truthful they're the past for this radical of athletes earlier adjacent year's Winter Olympics. In 2023 successful Georgia (the country, not the U.S. state) Canadians won 9 medals, matching the United States for 3rd spot successful the wide number down Austria (13) and Switzerland (10).

Seven of Canada's medals came connected the skis side, including each 3 of its golds. The large Mikaël Kingsbury swept the men's moguls and dual moguls titles for the 3rd clip successful a row, portion Brendan Mackay won the men's halfpipe for the archetypal time. Megan Oldham joined Kingsbury arsenic a multi-medallist, taking metallic successful the women's slopestyle and bronze successful the large air.

Kingsbury volition beryllium Canada's main quality again this week arsenic helium goes for an unthinkable 4th consecutive moguls/dual moguls double. Don't stake against it, due to the fact that the 2018 Olympic champ and two-time Olympic metallic remains astatine the apical of his crippled astatine property 32. Kingsbury won 9 of his 16 World Cup starts this play (and added 4 metallic medals), extending his all-time wins grounds to 99 and his Crystal Globe postulation to 29 arsenic he swept the men's moguls, dual moguls and wide titles.

That's not to accidental the moguls GOAT volition spell unchallenged this week. Kingsbury has a worthy adversary successful Japan's Ikuma Horishima, the 2017 treble satellite champion who clipped Kingsbury successful a choky contention for the World Cup moguls rubric past play for his archetypal Crystal Globe. Horishima, 27, was the runner-up successful each 3 points chases this season, though nary of them were truly close.

In qualifying today, Kingsbury placed 2nd to Sweden's Filip Gravenfors, who was 3rd successful the World Cup wide standings. Horishima placed 4th successful qualifying, and Canada's Julien Viel was 5th aft earning a metallic and a bronze connected circuit this season.

Canadian Maia Schwinghammer was 4th successful women's qualifying. She won a golden and 2 bronze connected the World Cup circuit this play to decorativeness 3rd successful the regular moguls standings and 4th overall.

The men's and women's moguls finals are connected Wednesday, starting astatine 6:30 a.m. ET. The dual moguls finals are Friday astatine 9:30 a.m. ET.

Canada's different large events this week are the men's and women's skis cross, which the state has traditionally done rather good successful astatine the Olympics. Surprisingly, nary Canadians reached the idiosyncratic podiums astatine the 2023 worlds, though Reece Howden and Marielle Thompson each placed 4th successful their four-person finals earlier pairing up for a metallic successful the mixed squad event.

Howden ranks 2nd successful the men's World Cup standings aft earning his fifth triumph of the season and adding a metallic past play successful Ontario. Kevin Drury is sixth aft taking bronze successful some of those competitions.

Thompson seemed poised to repetition arsenic women's World Cup champion aft winning 3 consecutive starts successful February to get to 5 victories connected the season. But the 2014 Olympic champ and 2022 Olympic metallic medallist tailed disconnected earlier suffering a season-ending genu wounded 2 weeks ago.

Still, Canada has a beardown women's world-title contender successful India Sherret, who's 2nd successful the World Cup pursuit down Switzerland's Fanny Smith and has reached the podium six times this season, including a brace of golds. Canadians Courtney Hoffos and Abby McEwen fertile seventh and eighth aft taking metallic and bronze, respectively, past Saturday.

Ski transverse qualifying takes spot Friday, and the idiosyncratic medal rounds are connected Saturday astatine 6 a.m. ET. The mixed squad lawsuit goes Sunday astatine 6:30 a.m. ET.

The different skis lawsuit this week is the slopestyle. Oldham should contend for the women's podium again arsenic she ranks 2nd successful the World Cup standings connected the spot of a brace of silvers. The medal rounds are connected Saturday astatine 5 a.m. ET (women's) and 7:30 a.m. ET (men's).

The snowboard slopestyle finals spell Sunday astatine those aforesaid times. Canadian teen Cam Spalding won the archetypal 2 men's competitions of the play and continues to pb the World Cup standings, portion 2018 Olympic metallic medallist Laurie Blouin is eighth successful the women's chase.

Looking up to immoderate of the apical Canadians competing adjacent week, Brendan Mackay defends his men's skis halfpipe golden portion World Cup men's snowboard transverse person Éliot Grondin tries to adhd a satellite rubric to the Olympic metallic helium won successful 2022. Cassie Sharpe, Rachael Karker and Amy Fraser fertile fifth, sixth and seventh successful the women's skis halfpipe standings and person each reached the podium this season.

How to watch:

You tin drawback the medal rounds for each lawsuit unrecorded connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. The CBC TV web volition person further sum connected the weekends. For commencement times, spot the streaming docket for skiing here and snowboarding here.