Men’s and women’s FIS Freestyle Aerials World Cup competition returns to the Olympic Jumping Complex for the first time since 2019 on January 18-19, 2025. An Olympic sport since the 1994 Lillehammer Games, aerials is a spectator-friendly discipline that showcases athletes performing acrobatic flips, spins, and twists in the air for scores based on total air, form, and landing success.
Lake Placid is one of eight FIS Aerials World Cups on the 2024-25 calendar and will feature men’s and women’s individual events and a mixed-team event. The season begins November 24, 2024, in Ruka, Finland, and concludes with the World Championships starting March 30, 2025. Lake Placid, a regular stop on the FIS Aerials World Cup tour between 1985 and 2019, is the second Aerials World Cup of the 2024-2025 season.
The U.S. Aerials team has traditionally been strong. Christopher Lillis, an Olympic gold medalist and Rochester, N.Y. native, turned in multiple World Cup podium finishes last year on his way to a third-place overall ranking. Winter Vinecki, of Michigan, won three individual World Cups last year and was a close second in overall FIS points to Danielle Scott, of Australia.
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