1.   Championships will be awarded to overall winners in closed course, slalom and freestyle competitions.

2.   Four years ago, the U.S. won eight medals in the freestyle competition, three of them gold, and the Americans may do even better this.

3.   Patie Ventre is the national guru of the freestyle competition.

4.   Canadian world champion Nicolas Fontaine and Nikki Stone of the United States won their respective events in the opening round of the World Cup freestyle skiing competition Friday.

5.   High winds forced the cancellation of a World Cup aerials freestyle skiing competition Friday.

6.   It was the sixth-highest score of the freestyle competition.

7.   The freestyle competition ends with the moguls on Saturday.