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MATHILDE GREMAUD: Every time, right before drop in,
everything around me goes quiet.
All the noise is gone, and it's just me in the moment.
Then I drop.
I feel the wind, the speed, the adrenaline.
No thoughts, no questions.
Just freedom and being in the moment.
Before medals, expectations, or setback,
skiing was never about women.
It was about feeling free, flying, and having fun.
[MUSIC FADES]
[CHANTAL GREMAUD SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[MATHILDE GREMAUD SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[CHANTAL GREMAUD SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[STÉPHANE GREMAUD SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[LAUGHS]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
MATHILDE GREMAUD:So I started when I was two years old.
My parents were taking me and my oldest sister skiing every weekend
for more than ten years.
It was just a hobby for me.
[STÉPHANE GREMAUD SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[EXCLAIMS]
[LAUGHING]
When we were old enough, I guess, to escape,
we're just going in the woods and going skiing without poles.
I think, we're super cool and we did a lot of stupid things,
like trying to go down where we've never been.
At some point, I asked my dad for twin tips.
I wanted freestyle skis
and I saw that there was a comp and my mom took me
and I met some people that were organizing camps for young people.
It's called Ski Romand in Switzerland
and they had a group of freestyle skier,
and I would train together and go to the comps together.
Yeah. My first impression of her was,
I was like, "Yeah, she's got some style."
I remember everybody was looking at her like,
"Oh, my God. Who is this girl? She's amazing."
We could see straight away, how she skied on the slow course,
like, very good ski technique.
She had already her kind of own style how she skied,
and she had already some guts.
WOMAN 1:Elinah...
WOMAN 1:Grabbing front speed.
My progression was pretty fast.
For two years, I was riding with that team,
and then I got selected for the Youth Games.
It didn't really go well.
I think, I landed one messy run,
and then I saw the runs from the other girls
and got to meet them and see their level and everything,
and I was a bit bummed
because I was like, "Come on.
I could have been on that podium,
if I had landed the run that I wanted to."
So that really started for me that fire of competing in the...
Yeah, the hunger for... yeah, chasing a podium.
And then after that event, something changed.
Something sparked.
I was like, "Wait, maybe I can do this."
"Maybe I can turn my passion into my life."
That's when the question hit me, "How far can I actually go?"
[ALL CHEERING]
Youth Games is a competition where you get invited.
There's a lot of media coverage.
-Thought on that? -You know it's...
It's very elite.
And a lot of expectation to perform and do well at those events.
It can change a lot in someone's career.
[ALL CHEERING]
MAN 3: Let's give it for Mathilde Gremaud!
COMM 1: Mathilde Gremaud sitting in second
has looked fantastic thus far...
-Oh, no way! COMM 2:What!
COMM 1:Mathilde Gremaud. Switch Double Rodeo 1080.
Are you kidding me? And finishes in Top 5.
Oh, my goodness.
I'm not seeing a situation
where Kelly Sildaru is suddenly placed on her field.
MATHILDE GREMAUD:I ended up winning that year at X Games, Norway.
I tried for the first time ever on snow when I switched up 10.
I wanted it, and I got it.
After a while, I realized, like,
"Okay. This is really my place now, and it's right."
When did you decide you were gonna try that?
I decide just before.
Just before you dropped in?
Yeah. Full send.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Two weeks after the X Games, I tore my ACL.
[GLOOMY MUSIC PLAYING]
That was, I think, the moment where I realized, okay,
this is my job or this is what I am doing now,
and I cannot do it anymore.
Everything hit me at once.
The success I had in my first season,
the potential I could maybe see a bit in myself,
or the dreams I was starting to build.
I didn't think it was gonna go that well, and it did,
and now it's taken away from me.
At the doctor, I did an MRI, and then he was like,
"Well, it doesn't look good, and there's nothing in there.
Your knee is loose."
Obviously, I heard people talking in the Olympics,
"Oh, Mathilde, ah,
she could be there and she could do well and stuff and..."
I quickly realized that dream might be over,
and I would have to wait another four years if I even could...
Then I had surgery, and that was, for three weeks, it was hell.
[GLOOMY MUSIC CONTINUES]
WOMAN 2: Press bump... leave.
MATHILDE GREMAUD:At that time, the goal was just to make sure
I could just be at the start.
That was the only goal, nothing more.
MISRA NOTO TORNIAINEN:For us, that the path was clear
what we have to do.
She just learned that Switch Double.
First try, she landed,
and it's like a key point in her career.
Like, okay, first double in the competition,
you're landing it.
So tell me why it shouldn't work out.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
The course was a very tricky course, very high rails,
and no space between obstacles.
Then in the last training, her last run,
she had a crash on a race,
slipped out end of the rail, and crashed to her head.
MATHILDE GREMAUD:I hit my head really hard. I was so scared.
I was like, "I just don't remember what happened,"
and this is really, really, really scary.
SARAH HOEFFLIN: I just remember going to see her,
and she was so upset.
We actually wondered whether,
maybe this level of upset might have been a concussion.
So we were not really sure if she can compete next day.
And then I saw the doctor.
He was like, "Look, from my side,
there is no reason why I should not let you compete."
When I was at the start
after everything that had happened with the knee injury
in the previous day...
I was so thankful to stand at the top.
And the final started, I dropped it on my first run,
and I did a pretty decent run with the Switch Dub 10
on the last jump.
I was very well on my way to a medal,
and I didn't realize first and second were Sarah and me,
and it didn't change.
That was pretty crazy.
That was very unexpected for me.
It was a crazy comeback.
I mean, after ten months, first time competing after ACL.
Still a young athlete, first really big competition,
and she just got second.
It was a crazy day.
[ALL SINGING]
You're now an Olympic medalist.
Attention and how people will talk about you
is very different than before.
Standing on that podium, I proved to myself that I belong,
that I am a professional athlete.
The fire was lit.
And now, I wasn't just chasing medals.
I was on the right path.
I wanted to see how far I can push the limits
and play my part in the progression of women's sports.
It's always a big risk involved to learn big tricks on the jump
because so much can go wrong.
There was this Switch 14 that was pretty attractive to me.
Searching for videos of the trick on Instagram
from other boys who did it and screen recorded it,
and I watched it a couple times to get the rotation in my head.
And then after some time, I picture my body doing it.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
I was doing some work in my head to visualize it
and the second part of the trick was for me not the problem,
it was the first part that I had to learn that was really new
and then I had to put it together.
It's really important to have goals like that
because it keeps that passion also alive.
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
MAN 5:Come on, let's do it!
[SCREAMS]
[CHEERS]
Come on, let's do it!
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[LAUGHING]
Uh, When I landed the trick,
it was just, like, I couldn't believe it.
I was on my feet, I was...
I couldn't keep my arms down.
I was just like, "Yeah!"
And, yeah, it was... my heart was beating fast.
That was fun.
I think, my reaction just seeing her do the Switch 14 the first time
was just shock.
I was like, "There's no way."
First try, stomp right away.
And that's the classic Mathilde style,
like whenever she does something for the first time,
it's automatically perfect.
There's no wobbles, no nothing, it's textbook.
SARAH HOEFFLIN: I think, Mathilde just has this analytical brain
that it just allows her to get the tricks
and to visualize them and to land them.
Having Mathilde do the Switch 14 or some other tricks
that she's added just pushes the rest of the field
and we're all like, "Wow, that was impressive.
I want to push myself to try something new
and in the same way that she did."
MATHILDE GREMAUD:There is a moment just before gravity remembers me.
I am weightless, suspended between earth and sky,
fear and freedom.
In that moment, I don't fall, I don't land, I just fly.
When I was 20, I had landed the world first.
I was the youngest free skier to win an Olympic medal.
It felt like anything was possible.
My thought exactly,
"This is amazing, let's keep going."
But just when I thought I had found my rhythm,
I was faced with something I wasn't prepared for.
The way leading up into Beijing was a bit of a rollercoaster.
Not really progressing how I imagined to or wanted to
and then Misra came with this idea
and he was, like, "You know, I think, we should build a small team
on top of the team you have now and go together to Beijing.
And we get two gold medals
and we let everyone know that you're the best."
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
MISRA NOTO TORNIAINEN: It was like, "Hey, Mathilde,
I see everything in you
and the goal should be clear.
You should aim for double gold, Big Air and Slope."
And that's what we trained for.
He gave me the idea and I was really motivated by it
and he talked to our federation about it
where he had been working for years
and I think that's a discussion that didn't really go as planned.
The answer from the ski federation was,
"We cannot confirm that you're getting a credential for the games."
We went a few weeks without really talking about the project
and, in the meantime,
he kind of got some other offers and mainly one.
I got asked by another top athlete.
Within a few weeks or months, I had to take a decision
and, for me, at that point was like,
"Hey, I have the opportunity with another top athlete to go to Beijing
and be there and fight for gold."
I decided against Mathilde and go with another athlete.
For me, it really came so unexpected
and with the discussions that we had,
it was so clear for me that if he was not going to do it with me
because it didn't work out,
he was definitely not going to do it with someone else.
MISRA NOTO TORNIAINEN: All what I was trying to do was
to show her that I understand her
and I felt very sorry that's all what I could have done at that point.
I did not feel good, I feel really betrayed.
MISRA NOTO TORNIAINEN: Seeing her on the mountain
not speaking to each other
but still feeling it in my heart when she did well,
I'm happy for her.
You know, it was a struggle in my body as well or in myself. Yeah.
MATHILDE GREMAUD:For a while, I was not very optimistic.
I just didn't think about Beijing.
Then at some point, it also felt like a challenge.
I turned to Greg.
We just shake hands and we said, "Okay, let's go get double gold."
But we were laughing. It was just to be, like,
"Okay, we're on the same path, on the same road together.
Let's go get it."
MATHILDE GREMAUD: The whole preparation
was actually not a preparation,
it just felt like surviving a little bit.
GREG TÜSCHER: I mean, I tried to be not to feel the pressure
and I really tried to be as calm as possible
as taking even as a joke.
Be like, "We're just skiers.
We do another competition.
And, yeah, I mean, let's go for it. Let's try our best.
If we win, we win.
If we lose, we don't lose, we just learn and we keep going."
MATHILDE GREMAUD:There was nothing I could change anymore
when I was in the bib.
I was, like, "It's today or why not?"
We started with the Big Air and I got the bronze and...
I... it was insane, insane, really.
Like, there is an interview of me doing it
and I'm just falling and I was just like,
"I'm so relieved and this is amazing"
and it was... was it my birthday?
It was my birthday. It was my 22nd birthday
when I got the bronze medal in Big Air.
It was, yeah, I was like, "Okay, today I have it all.
I'm healthy. I have another Olympic medal.
It's my birthday. I'm happy. I'm fine."
And I was just, like, all the emotions came up
and really it was insane.
And I was, like, I could not stop crying and, and...
then, I think, as this was such a big relief,
I was so empty after it.
But I still had another event to go
and I was just emotionless for a few days,
didn't want to ski,
I just wanted to lay in bed and do nothing
but the Slopeside was still coming.
During the quali day, yeah, she lost it, she was crying,
she was in doubt and she really didn't want to do it.
I was like, "Yeah, leave it. Get it out, get it out!"
And she said, "Sorry, Greg, I think, I'm not going to do it."
And I was like, "Okay, that's fine.
If you don't want to do it then don't do it, but..."
I said, "Please just do one little run.
Just for me, just do it, do it. Easy."
So, first run she goes down in quali,
she's doing nothing just 360s on the jump
and I was like, "Okay, it's over. It's over for Mathilde."
Next one, okay in four years or whatever.
And then second run,
I was like, "Yeah, just do Switch Half,
just do a Right 900, easy."
I squeezed into final in 12th place, in 12th go to final.
For me, I was like, "All right, this is it.
I did it but I didn't even try, like, I'm so stupid."
You would think from outside perspective that you're,
"Yay, I'm lucky to get in. Now I can move forward."
But if you're riding and you're feeling kind of sketchy,
you miss a grab.
I think, all that's kind of disappointing as an athlete
because you feel like you didn't show the world
what you're actually capable of.
But then I was in final and the final was the next day,
so I had to switch it and I said that once,
and then I finished the day.
I went to bed and I woke up in the morning
and again it was bit weird, it was perfect,
and I look outside and it was like, "Perfect."
I saw her at breakfast and I knew deep inside that I don't know.
I was like, "Okay, this is it. This is the day."
It was a great day on the skis and everything went as planned
and, yeah, I ended up winning gold after all.
I was in... I was watching all the coaches on the screen.
I... When she said gold because...
I went out and I started screaming.
I was like, "Fuck, yeah. Fuck, yeah."
Yeah, with the quali day, the crying, all of this going out,
so much emotion that I had to get it out as well
and I took her in my arm at the bottom
and I wanted to throw her in the fence.
After qualifying in 12th,
no one was really expecting me again to bounce back.
That was crazy. Beijing was a big emotional rollercoaster.
[ALL CHEERING]
CROWD:Mathilde! Mathilde! Mathilde!
When it dies down, it's definitely a weird feeling
because you're kind of in the spotlight for so long.
In the beginning when you get so much attention,
you kind of get used to it.
When you don't have it anymore, you're kind of still looking for it.
You come home with two medals and one gold.
And it's like, "Yeah, it's a big, big high."
It's the highest you can have.
It definitely at some point hits when you're like,
"Okay, this is very positive, but now I'm empty."
You don't really know what to do.
And as you reach the highest you can reach,
then you ask yourself what is next.
After the Olympics, you are the hero for some weeks,
maybe months, and then you have to go back to your routines.
Feeling alone is something
that Mathilde and probably lots of athletes feel
when they have accomplished something special.
And then suddenly have the time to feel that,
"Okay, I'm not interested for many people besides sports."
And that's where the circle is closing itself
because "Who am I?"
I think, post-Olympic blues
is completely incomprehensible to anyone.
It's like winning the lottery and complaining about it.
You know, and saying, "Oh, I'm so depressed."
People just don't get it.
People can only imagine winning the lottery and being happy,
you know, being able to do all these things,
having this freedom that you didn't have before.
MATHILDE GREMAUD: What did I do for that?
I guess, I started hanging out with some friends
that I hadn't seen in a while.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
Put the ski life a bit on hold.
During the week, I was working and working out.
And on the weekend, I was escaping a little bit.
And it was really, really cool.
It was insane.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[MUSIC FADES]
MATHILDE GREMAUD: Going to the 23-24 season,
I think I was super unconfident.
I didn't really have trust that I could do well.
I landed perfectly, but I was...
my legs were separated to my upper body.
I had the Olympics in 21-22
and then I won the World Champs in 22-23.
All the journalists were telling me,
"Well, the only thing you don't have are crystal globes."
And I was like, "Thank you, I know."
Instead of just losing energy,
thinking, "Can they just stop asking me this question?"
I tried to use it as a motivation and be like,
"Okay, if they want it, then they are going to get it."
MAN 6: Are you feeling ready?
You cannot ask me this question.
I'm kidding. Yeah, I don't know.
I never had to really answer that question before, so...
Yeah, ready, not ready.
It's just happening next week, so I have to do it.
I want to do it.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRYING]
Yeah, she called me before, she was, like, "Should I come or not?"
And I was, like, "Yeah, I mean, at the end, you decide,
but, I mean, if you want to be close to your family,
that's totally understandable.
But at the end, she is dead
and she probably wanted you to keep going with your life
and to keep doing what you love."
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[CROWD CHEERING]
To put that on the side, to go and win...
Yeah, I think, that takes a lot of resources.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
MATHILDE GREMAUD: I somehow could use some memories
to give myself energy.
It was really weird.
It kind of felt like I was not there, but I was definitely there.
And, yeah, it's just like those moments
where you don't really know what's happening to you
but you're still doing it.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
The three first event of the season, I ended up first.
The fourth one, I ended up second.
After those four events, I was like,
"Okay, I just need to keep the streak going."
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
COMMENTATOR 3:...Oh, my goodness. It's a Double Ten.
Hi.
ANNOUNCER 1:...in second place.
[ANNOUNCER 2 SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
Six or seven wins. Every podium.
I mean, it's history, it's awesome.
Got the overall for the Big Air,
the overall for the Slopestyle, and overall Park & Pipe.
No one had ever grabbed three globes at once.
It turned out to be the best season ever.
GREG TÜSCHER: Then at the end of the season,
you get everything explode
because you put these feelings, you put everything here into the box,
you close it, then you have to proceed it.
You have to proceed all these feelings at some point.
At the end of the 2023-24 season, as soon as I took my bib off,
I kind of hit a wall.
Like, I couldn't really get out of my house anymore
and out of my bed as well.
It was super challenging for me.
I didn't feel safe and I didn't feel...
Yeah. I felt, like, something would happen to me.
So I was super anxious and hypochondria was in the mix.
Probably due to my dad's sister passing away
at the beginning of the season.
And I tried to ski as good as I can
and I ended up having the best season of my career so far.
So it was super weird that I was feeling like that.
I didn't really know how to deal with everything
and what was really going on.
I think, just for her not being able to get out of bed,
it was quite scary, I guess, because she's not used to it.
She's always so energized and happy to move,
and, I think, that was a bit scary for her.
She was going to the doctors, but they couldn't find anything.
She was just so low in energy and didn't know why.
CHRISTOPH BJERLER: There were multiple situations
leading into this.
Probably also to unconsciously try to fill up and step up
to all the great success she had a year before.
Then she had things happening in her private life,
losing a family member.
What we have been working with was finding a way between
how do her private and real life situations that affect her,
how does that affect her performance-wise
and mental health-wise,
and then trying to build bridges between these
because she is, like, I said, she's not only an athlete,
she's a human being.
And it is about if she's got the interest in filling up
and going for performance, it is important to build bridges
between her private human being and the athlete,
and try to find who am I and how do I work with this.
I was super unconfident about my achievements
and what I was actually worth.
And I could see all the medals, stupidly said,
but I could not really see what was behind them
and what I could do, and what I was worth.
And that's only through other people as well that you hear that
and you start to get that into your head as well,
that, yes, you did great things and people are proud of you
and you have to be proud of yourself.
Mathilde being hard on herself is something
that is probably,
yeah, one of the things we have talked about the most,
especially because she's one of her biggest own critics.
Being hard on yourself is important to also reach the goals,
and there is some fine line between reaching the goal
without being too hard on yourself.
If you stick on the negative side, what happened,
and you beat yourself up being the bad person in that moment,
it doesn't bring you further
and you won't be able to get out of this and maybe learn from it.
Because the downsides of the sports is also the most learnable places
where you can take most out of it.
MATHILDE GREMAUD: You kind of have this feeling
that you want to be alone.
But actually, it's really good to have people around you.
It's super important to very early on, I think,
try to find a balance with having your own time
and having time with other people,
because, I think, we all need advice from other people,
we all need distraction from other people,
and we need love from other people.
So you cannot get any love if you're by yourself.
[WOMAN 1 SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[LAUGHS]
[WOMAN 2 SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
MATHILDE GREMAUD:Most of my career has unfolded far from home.
On different mountains, in front of people I didn't even know,
away from my family.
But, in February 2025, the world champs come to Switzerland.
For the first time, I get to fly in front of the people
who've been there since the beginning.
This one matters.
It's more than a title.
It's about showing my best right here at home.
But just four weeks out,
an unexpected fall puts it all at risk.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC STOPS]
I did a really not chill trick.
I got motivated to do a Switch Four on.
I came around, but I hit the tip of my ski.
I ended up crashing pretty hard with my whole body,
but unfortunately, my head hit the ground as well.
I can still notice a few things
that I don't think are quite ready to be at my best, like, on my skis.
It's been a bit of a tough one to accept the world champs at home,
but my health has always, always, always been my priority,
and it will keep being so...
COMMENTATOR 4: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen,
and welcome to the FIS Freeski Slopestyle Qualification
here in beautiful St. Moritz.
The course is looking perfect, arguably the best of the year.
And today, the ladies will be battling it out
for the top eight spots.
MATHILDE GREMAUD: I don't think I've ever been
that nervous in ten years.
So normally, I'm pretty quiet, and my legs are little like...
It's okay. I think, it's a good feeling,
but, I mean, it's good, and at the same time,
it's absolutely disgusting feeling.
Her self-confidence is not where you think it would be.
If someone will be Olympic champion and world champion,
sometimes they're over the roof or they're super cocky,
but she's not.
But at the same time, it's also a problem
because sometimes it's in her own way to perform.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
COMMENTATOR 4:And here we go.
The reigning world champion from Switzerland, Mathilde Gremaud.
Coming in for the Switch Dub Nine.
Oh, no. That is not the start that Gremaud was looking for.
And it has been a very tricky season so far,
suffering that concussion injury four weeks ago.
Not an ideal start.
Didn't go as planned, obviously.
She crashed on Switch Dub Nine.
So for second run, we were like, "Okay, let's go, Switch Five."
A more chill run, but really clean top to bottom.
And not aiming for first place, but aiming to qualify.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
All right, all right. All right, all right, all right.
Looks good. You look good. All the way down.
Yep. I got this.
I was so fucking nervous, bro. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That was...
COMMENTATOR 4:So second and final run for Gremaud.
Needs to score if she wants a spot in the finals.
270 on, 270 off.
Pressure mounting for Gremaud. Puts down the Switch Seven.
No problems there.
Coming in for jump number two,
this is where it went wrong in run number one.
Brings it down a notch to the Switch Five.
One rail left for Gremaud, coming in switch.
270 on. Oh, she's got away with that.
Not maybe the cleanest run,
but, I think, it's gonna be a decent score,
so it's all up to the judges now.
Nervous times.
And it's a 70.92.
So into second position.
Okay, she's second.
Oh, my God, yeah. I'm relieved. I was like this...
When I landed the last jump,
I was like, "Come on, this cannot go wrong."
I unlocked all the little problems
so that I could ski freely and not think about the outcome
and just be like... I'm here standing on my two legs,
and I will be at the bottom standing on my two legs with a landed run.
And, yeah, that was cool.
Mathilde is built for competing.
And, I think, she needs that pressure and those nerves to put it down.
I was quite nervous, to tell you the truth.
But I know Mathilde, like she can perform when it counts,
when she's under pressure.
Big respect because she put it down when it counted.
So, yeah, that's great. Looking forward for final.
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
COMMENTATOR 4:It's finals time, ladies and gentlemen,
on quite simply the best slopestyle course of the season.
This is the FIS World Championships Women's Freeski Finals.
Let's go. You got this!
COMMENTATOR 4: So Mathilde Gremaud dropping in
for her first run of two,
her family and girlfriend in attendance.
COMMENTATOR 5:And here we go.
One of the most successful riders of all time.
COMMENTATOR 5: Coming in now, 630 off the rails,
setting herself up, switch.
She put it down in her second qualifying run,
going for the Switch 720.
COMMENTATOR 5:Uno problem mid-speed here for Mathilde Gremaud.
Switch, left, double nine.
COMMENTATOR 5:Alarming for Mathilde.
She's gonna go Right Double 1080.
This is looking like a really good run.
Two hits left. Alley Five. Okay.
Coming in switch, the first skier to attempt the gnarliest rail.
Yes! Ladies and gentlemen, a full pull from top to bottom
in the first run for the Olympic champion,
Mathilde Gremaud from Gruyère in Switzerland.
[FOREIGN LANGUAGE]in books.
One down.
It was super clean top to bottom, so phew. Let's hope.
MATHILDE GREMAUD: I believe that winning and failing
is actually just what I'm going through
to become a better version of myself.
It's definitely through my sport and everything that I go through
that my personality is being shaped.
I want to be able to share that with people,
and I want to try and inspire them.
I think, having something to work on
and, like, a bit of a challenge and a goal is always super important.
COMMENTATOR 5: So second run for Gremaud.
Now she is sitting in that top position.
However, the field of talent here is incredible,
and she's no means comfortable in that top spot.
So starting off very similar in run number two.
Looking good through the top section.
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And it's that Dub Ten again,
puts it down into the shark fin feature, here she goes.
Oh, looking to step that one up.
Oh, no. She's gone down!
Oh, that is gonna be nervous times for Mathilde Gremaud.
Unable to put down run number two.
However, she is still sitting in that top spot,
but with an incredible field left to come.
MATHILDE GREMAUD: There's always other skiers
that might be able to take everything from you,
and Megan Oldham is very, very good.
And she's a strong skier.
And I feel like she always has good surprises.
MEGAN OLDHAM: Competing against Mathilde,
I find it motivates me to go out and feed off of her energy.
So she's doing big tricks.
I see her doing her Switch Dub Ten,
and then I go and I'm like, "Okay. I wanna be up there with her.
I'm gonna go try a new harder trick to keep up."
There is the youngster, Flora Tabanelli,
which is Italian and has been really showing her strength this winter
and she could always strike.
COMMENTATOR 5: So run number two for Megan Oldham,
a former X Games gold medalist, of course, from Canada.
Does she have enough to knock Mathilde off that top spot?
So not sure where Mathilde is,
probably hiding nervously somewhere as she watches Megan drop in. 270 on.
Oh, no. Little inconsistency there in the landing.
At this level of competition,
I shudder to think that that's not gonna be enough for Megan,
but she will continue her run.
Coming into the shark's fin,
going absolutely huge and going a bit too big.
So Megan Oldham unable to put it down.
So, I guess, Matilde Gremaud breathing a sigh of relief.
Dropping in next,
we have the young phenom Flora Tabanelli from Italy.
Definitely a threat to that top spot for Gremaud.
Starts off nice with the Switch Two on two off the top rail.
Jumps are really where she excels as you can see there.
The Switch Dub by 09.
And now on the last rail, 270 on.
Comes off a little bit early.
What do we think? Is it gonna be enough?
Nervous times for everyone all around.
Scores coming in, though.
It's gonna be a 66.34.
It's a fourth position.
And, ladies and gentlemen, that is official.
Defending her world title, it is Mathilde Gremaud.
[ALL CHEERING]
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VALENTINA HÖLL:Oh, my God.
It's been so emotional and more downs and downs and downs,
and barely any ups.
And she didn't even know she would go
and even start for world champs.
And then, you know, doing basic Mathilde stuff,
showing up and fucking winning everything.
Champion.
I don't really know what to say
that it was a kind of a hard road leading to the world champs.
And I didn't know if I was gonna be able to compete, so I don't know.
It's insane. Today's skiing was really fun.
ANNOUNCER 3:The gold medalist of FIS 2025 Freeski winner,
Slopestyle world champion representing Switzerland,
it is Mathilde Gremaud!
[ALL CHEERING]
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MATHILDE GREMAUD:As soon as I dropped in for first run,
I felt like, I was in the right place at the right moment,
which is an absolutely great feeling,
and it's a good state when you feel like that.
And, I think, that's definitely what I enjoy about competing.
Like, when you get to that point, it's so much more enjoyable.
I was just really freeskiing,
and that's how I felt when I started skiing,
and so much freedom.
It's pretty cool when you can put all that together in a comp run
and feel super free.
Yeah. It doesn't feel like something that I have to do,
but really feels like something I want to do.
Yeah. One out of two for now.
So let's see if we can do two out of two.
That would be great. It's definitely not over.
It's just the first competition and we have a second one.
So we start again on Sunday and we go again and we try our best.
And it's gonna be interesting and it's gonna be another challenge,
and I'm excited for it.
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COMMENTATOR 6: It is Big Air qualification,
ladies and gentlemen,
here at the FIS Freestyle Freeski and Snowboard World Championships.
We are down in the Engadin Valley
here at St. Moritz for Women's Freeski Big Air Qualifications.
Her quality is really to build it up, step by step as we did in slope,
as she did also in the past.
Not aiming too big, too soon,
but just slowly but surely until the gold.
[LAUGHS]
COMMENTATOR 6:So first run of three from Mathilde Gremaud,
of course, coming in hot with that gold medal
from Slopestyle early in the week.
She's gonna start things off with a Switch Left Dub 1080.
Puts it down, and that's gotta feel good
after run number one.
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COMMENTATOR 6: So second run from Mathilde Gremaud.
Of course, this has to be a different trick to her first one
where she put down a Switch Left Ten.
Coming in regular start now, so it's gonna be a Left Dub 1260.
Oh, she overcooks that one,
so it's all gonna be left to play for in run number three.
With Mathilde, big quality is that she can sublime herself
in competition.
One trick is missing, she's always like,
"Okay. I can do it. I know. I will."
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COMMENTATOR 6:So a third and final run for Mathilde Gremaud.
Not accustomed to this pressure, I think at this point.
She's got the gold medal from Slopestyle,
but what she really needs to focus on is, that score of 142.50.
That is what she needs to qualify.
Needing a trick, needing a landed run,
all the pressure on her shoulders right now.
More than capable of performing, but what's it gonna be?
Dropping in for the left side Double Cork 1260. No!
She's gone too deep, and that is gonna be disappointment.
And no finals for Mathilde Gremaud.
MATHILDE GREMAUD: It's quite bitter to not even make it
through final in Big Air.
I hoped for two medals,
but given what happened in the last weeks,
I'm super happy that at least I have won and it's a gold.
So I tried hard to be ready.
The warm-up for the qualies were not bad.
I did basically everything I wanted,
and somehow it just didn't work for my second and third run.
I didn't give Big Air that much focus,
but I thought if Slopestyle works, then I can do it again in Big Air.
Like the mental game, obviously when you achieve one goal,
it's kind of hard to top it.
I really hope and try to do as well the same thing in Big Air,
but, like, I got stopped right on the first step.
I think for me the nerves or not having the nerves like a bit today
is still a fun thing.
It's like a game and you play it, and that's competing.
So I feel like, no matter how I'm feeling,
how nervous I am, it's always fun.
It's just in its own way.
Like sometimes it's harder.
Motivation is not here because my emotions are taking over,
but, I think, I just love skiing.
And I started because I loved it.
I didn't start because I wanted to compete.
So I think that's probably why.
Just enjoy it.
And I definitely reflect a lot, and I ask myself a lot of questions.
I think a lot, but in the end, it's like not all that serious
and not all that complicated.
I just do it because I like it,
and I don't really think about it at the same time
as I think about it over and over and over again.
[LAUGHS]
Of course, there is a part of me that is chasing medals,
showing my best, proving what's possible.
But along the way, I quickly understood.
What comes first are these feelings I am chasing.
Fun was the spark, the reason I keep coming back.
Flying is the feeling, the moment when fear and freedom blur.
Freedom is even deeper than that.
For me, it is leaving my passion,
knowing I am exactly where I am supposed to be.
Because only then, I can really feel free.
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[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
So, Mathilde, dude, sometimes she looks so mad at me
that I'm getting really scared.
I'm getting really thrown off by that because she can look like this.
[LAUGHS]
Any advice for Mathilde?
Stay on the path you're on. Have fun.
Just remember, you're riding two pieces of wood
down a mountain for a living, so have fun with it.
Making memories.
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