Modena big air World Cup ramp takes shape with two weeks to go

Modena (ITA) - With just two weeks to go before the 2018/19 FIS Freeski World Cup season restarts preparations on the biggest artificial jump ramp ever to built in Italy are nearing the final stages.

After opening in Cardrona (NZL) back in early September with mind-blowing big air World Cup competition that concluded the 2018 Winter Games NZ, the top big air athletes in the world will be looking to follow up that performance with another stunner at the Modena Skipass big air World Cup competition in two weeks time.

Coinciding with the Italian metropolis’s Skipass winter sport and tourism festival, expectations are high for the inaugural Modena big air, with an entry list that already boasts riders like Kelly Sildaru (EST), Silvia Bertagna (ITA), and Sarah Hoefflin (SUI) on the ladies' side, and Oystein Braaten (NOR), Henrik Harlaut (SWE), and Andri Ragettli (SUI) for the men.

And then there’s that jump, a man-made structure of steel and snow that will stand 46m tall and 130m long when all is said and done and it’s ready for competition, making it the largest such ramp to be built in Italy and amongst the biggest ever constructed for World Cup competition.

There will be more to come from us in the lead-up to the Modena Skipass big air World Cup, but in the meantime check out this behind-the-scenes footage from the venue’s construction…