Indra Brown wins X-Games silver on debut forward of 2026 Winter Olympic Games

Indra Brown has as soon as once more proved that no stage is just too large for her burgeoning expertise, successful an outstanding silver medal on her X-Games debut within the Aspen superpipe.

Fresh off being named for her first Winter Olympics crew for Milan Cortina, the 15-year-old confirmed the world her meteoric rise on the World Cup circuit has been no fluke, firmly placing herself in medal competition in Milan subsequent month.

“I feel like she’s just building momentum, building confidence,” two-time freestyle snowboarding X-Games gold medallist Maggie Voisin stated in commentary. 

“She’s like, I have three World Cup podiums, I now have an X-Games podium. Why not an Olympic medal?”

Australia’s chef de mission Alissa Camplin-Warner stated she didn’t need Brown to place an excessive amount of strain on herself at these Olympics when she introduced the squad on Friday in Melbourne.

“What I hope is that she can just be open to the whole experience, enjoy it and not heap too much pressure on herself,” Camplin-Warner stated.

But her performances have been such that there’ll probably be a clamour for the teenager when shen takes to the slopes.

Despite the difficult situations, with heavy snow slowing the pipe, the Melbourne teen opened up the competitors with a massively spectacular rating of 80.00 that put her in fourth place after spherical one.

Despite being the youngest competitor at this 12 months’s X-Games, Brown sometimes confirmed no nerves on the world’s foremost excessive sport showcase.

Brown delighted the gang with flawless back-to-back 900s, following up with a 720, back-to-back swap 360s and a giant alley-oop to complete.

But within the second spherical, she improved, getting extra amplitude up the facet of the pipe to attain an outstanding 88.33 that thrust her into provisional second place.

With the order shuffled on the ultimate run, Brown went from main the sphere off to going final.

But even with that highlight on her Brown continued to excel, bettering her rating to 90.00.

Unfortunately she was by no means in a position to problem Britain’s Zoe Atkin, who was merely a lower above the remaining.

The British skier — the reigning world champion and among the many favourites for gold on the Livigno Ski Park in February — improved with every of her three runs to assert gold, with a surprising rating of 94.66.

Last 12 months’s winner, Canada’s Cassie Sharpe, claimed bronze at 33 years of age — greater than double Brown’s age. 

Earlier, Australian Tess Coady secured fourth within the girls’s snowboard slopestyle occasion.

Britain’s Mia Brookes claimed gold with a 96.33 on her second run, with New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott leaping into the medals with a 93.00 together with her third and closing run.

Coady, who gained silver within the 2023 X-Games, improved together with her closing run, however it was not sufficient to overtake the 89.66 of Japan’s Kokomo Murase.

Olympic slopestyle bronze medallist from Beijing, Coady will compete in each slopestyle and large air on the Milan Cortina Games subsequent month.