Those on hand in Mammoth Mountain (USA) on Friday were treated to a truly epic day of competition under warm, sunny Californian skies, where Cai Xuetong (CHN) and Yuto Totsuka (JPN) put their stamp on the Mammoth halfpipe with some incredible riding to take wins at the FIS Snowboard Halfpipe World Cup Mammoth Mountain Land Rover US Grand Prix.

Mastro makes history, but Cai puts down massive final run for victory

Second-place qualifier Cai – and the rest of the field – had the unenviable position of having to drop in on their third runs after the USA’s own Maddie Mastro made some World Cup history with her second run, becoming the first women’s rider to stomp a double inverted trick in World Cup competition when she rode away clean from her last-hit double crippler.

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