Laax Open 2024: Save the Date!
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Laax Open 2024: Save the Date!

When world record holder Valentino Guseli flies over the halfpipe into the night sky and snowboard ace Mia Brookes masters the slopestyle park elements with youthful ease, when thousands of fans cheer enthusiastically, shred to the valley themselves, and everyone parties together to live music ... then you know it's LAAX OPEN time.

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Role Models, Spinning, The Kid & Straight Airs:The Laax Open Report
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Role Models, Spinning, The Kid & Straight Airs:The Laax Open Report

Although returning to Laax Open bears some expectable delights, like some insane snowboarding, the good coffee at NoName or the stunning snowpark; every year is different. This time finals got postponed and even cancelled. Also, traditionalists feared that by including Freeski to the Open, the contest might not be the same anymore. Well, it wasn't – but not for the worse. Buckle up for some nostalgia, the queens of snowboarding and a sobbing old man.

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Laax Open 2023 – Teaser
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Laax Open 2023 – Teaser

At Crap Sogn Gion mountain at 2,252 masl, 300 riders from all over the world will compete in front of the impressive 360° mountain panorama at the FIS World Cup from 18-22 January 2023.

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Laax Open 2022 Thursday: Qualifications
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Laax Open 2022 Thursday: Qualifications

Today was qualifications day from the Laax Open 2022 for Women and men’s pipe and Men’s Slopestyle. We saw Ayumu Hirano and Shaun White return to Laax, Scotty James and Chloe Kim continue to dominate and then an incredible slopestyle qualification too.

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Start bei den Laax Open 2022
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Start bei den Laax Open 2022

Vom 11. bis 15. Januar stehen 180 Snowboarder bei Europas renommiertestem Snowboard Contest im Mittelpunkt. Männer und Frauen rittern zu gleichen Anteilen um insgesamt 140.000 CHF Preisgeld im Slopestyle und in der Superpipe.

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Laax Open 2022: Gateway to Olympia
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Laax Open 2022: Gateway to Olympia

The Laax Open 2022 has a decisive role to play: it is the very last chance for freestyle snowboarders to qualify for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. Travelling from all over the world, it is for some to punch their Olympic ticket with a brilliant performance at Crap Sogn Gion and for others who already have their ticket to Beijing but are after the LAAX OPEN podium and the lion’s share of the CHF 140,000 prize money.

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