Click on the video player above to watch&nbsp;action from a World Cup slopestyle&nbsp;skiing event in ​Font Romeu, France.

'I was a ticking time bomb': The evolution of Dara Howell

Canadian freestyle skier and 2014 Olympic champion Dara Howell has had to pick herself back up a number of times in her career but, after her latest curveball, she's back stronger than ever as a big air specialist.

A BOOTquet of questions with freestyle skier Dara Howell

Freestyle skier Dara Howell, seen above, is now focusing on big air, an event where athletes drop 40-plus feet into a jump and have 80-90 feet of airtime to perform a trick before landing.

Dara Howell

Watch Road to the Olympic Games: World Cup freestyle skiing

Watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly program spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. On this week's edition of the program, watch as World Cup freestyle skiers go for gold in the slopestyle competition in Font Romeu, France.

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You can also catch more freestyle skiing action on Saturday at 3&nbsp;p.m. ET on 

, our weekly show spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world.

Watch World Cup slopestyle skiing in France

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