Posted on 6 January 2014

Deer Valley (USA) World Cup 9th-11th January 2014

After the showbiz end to 2013, there’s a busy start to the New Year as the world’s best aerial skiers return to Utah to compete in Deer Valley’s 2014 FIS World Cup on January 9th – 11th 2014. This is the first of three aerial events on the north American Continent before the tour takes a break during the Winter Olympic Games.

The World Cup celebration will kick off with a free concert featuring Big Head Todd and the Monsters on lower Main Street in historic Park City on Wednesday, January 8, 2014, from 7 – 9 p.m. with a fireworks show after. All competitions will be held at night under the lights at Deer Valley. The aerial events will be held on the White Owl ski run on Friday, January 10. Finals will take place in the evening, with a fireworks display each night as well. Each event will also be filmed and televised on NBC and NBC Sports Network airing Saturday, January 25, 2014.

You can expect all the big guns to pulling out all their biggest tricks as competitors from every nation attempt to secure their quota spots for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi 2014.

Great Britain will be represented by Harry Gillam who returned to the snow after a short Christmas break and is already cranking up his training ready for the event. This time he hopes to compete with two triple somersaults and bring home a result that puts him in contention for a spot on TeamGB for Sochi. Here’s what he has to say:

Deer Valley site built and training started, ramps are sweet! Training is going well and I’ve got as much in as possible. The hill has been really busy as everyone’s been in town and doing some training since Christmas. Great to have them all here tho at the UOP.

Counting down the days until the competition on Friday – its going fast. The weather has been random, some days have been cloudy and sunny and cold; some days it’s been snowing and too windy to do much jumping. Now its snowing again and cloudy. Looking forward to the competition in my ‘back yard’ starting off the run of three events all before the 19th Jan

Travis Gerrits (CAN) will be looking to confirm his lead in the World Cup standings in Deer Valley (USA), before the the World Cup moves on to his home event in Val Saint-Côme (CAN) and then Lake Placid (NY) over the following week.