Congratulations to Ashley Calwell for winning the Beijing stop of the Freestyle World Cup, too bad the audience wasn’t a little stronger.  The crowd was sparse but if you have been paying attention the city has been besieged by defcon 2 level smog so you can understand why people aren’t populating events like this.

 

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