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Winter blast once again affects FIS world championships, but USA’s Goepper takes bronze in ski slopestyle

The world’s top slopestyle skiers went up against more than just the field on Wednesday. They not only battled a massive storm that dumped multiple feet of snow in the Park City area, but also gusty winds that kept them from soaring as high and as confidently as they normally do.

The men’s ski slopestyle event was forced to cram a day of qualifiers and finals runs into one jam-packed day of skiing Wednesday due to the early part of the storm that rolled in Tuesday.

James Woods of Great Britain won the gold medal Wednesday afternoon with a score of 86.