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Piiroinen new Swatch TTR Tour leader after O'Neil Evolution

09 January 2010

With an outstanding performance in both formats of the O’Neill Evolution, Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) is back at the top of the Swatch TTR World Ranking list. In a tight battle between Marko Grilc (SLO) in today’s 5Star Slopestyle finals, Peetu kept his cool and collected his fifth result of the season at Davos. Grilc, however, was the best rider of the day and took home the 5Star title and 850 Swatch TTR Ranking points with a run consisting of a double backflip, double cork 1080, 50/50 - backflip off. Despite his win, Grilc was pushed into World No. 2.

 
After his win of the Swatch TTR World Champion title last season, Peetu is aiming for his second consecutive title in 2009/10 and surely has the will to get there. 
 
"It is possible. Right now I have five results," he said. "I am pretty confident for the 6Stars that are coming. It would be really nice and I will for sure go for it and do my best and hope it is enough". 
 
He could become the first snowboarder ever to win two consecutive Swatch TTR titles. However, the season has only just started to gather momentum and up ahead are still many 6 and 5Star events until the Burton US Open where the Tour Champion will be crowned.
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