Olympics: Junior World Champ to tackle the big league

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Tess Coady is only 17 but the slopestyle snowboarder knows a good course when she sees one – and PyeongChang is shaping up to be a beauty.

Taking to the Winter Olympic course at Phoenix Snow Park for the first time today, Coady said the event would be ‘super exciting’ for spectators thanks to the make up of the course.

“The course is sweet – the jumps are really nice and the rails are pretty big but they all flow really well so it’s good,” she said.

“It takes a couple of runs (to know the course) but this course is really nice and they’ve done a really great job of building it… It’s going to be a good show.”

Officials met after training and discussed making the jumps slightly steeper, a move that Coady welcomed.

Coady has arrived in South Korea with a huge smile on her face and some extra confidence having won Australia’s first ever World Cup medal with bronze at the January Snowmass 2018 World Cup in Colorado, US, behind Christy Prior (NZL) and Reira Iwabuchi (JAP).

It’s just 12 months since Coady claimed the Junior World Championship title in Spindlruv Mlyn, Czech Republic – but she’s more than ready to mix it with the senior league.

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