DENVER (AP) With one good jump under the lights, or one terrific trip through the moguls, someone like Jeremy Bloom or Emily Cook can lock up a trip to the Olympics on Friday. Or some long shot like David DiGravio or Kayla Snyderman.

It will be a high-risk, highreward day for the freestyle skiers who are in Colorado hoping to punch their ticket to Turin and let the others sweat out the rest of the selection process.

“It’s pretty exciting,” said Shannon Bahrke, the moguls skier who won the automatic bid four years ago and parlayed it into a silver medal at the Olympics. “Whoever puts down the best run ... everyone here is skiing really well. It’s the person who has that day.”

Freestyle trials aren’t trials in the traditional sense they won’t be used to name the entire 14-person Olympic team. Instead, one winner from each event in Steamboat Springs men’s and women’s moguls and men’s and women’s aerials will earn an automatic spot. The rest must continue to qualify based on their results in World Cup events over the next month.

Because they have already finished in the top three during previous World Cup events, Travis Mayer (moguls) and Hannah Kearney (moguls) have already made it. Nobody else is guaranteed a spot yet, not even Bloom, the star who will head back to the football field when the Olympics are over.

Of course, there is no real holding back in freestyle skiing the sport is filled with risks. And nobody who wins Friday will forgo the upcoming World Cup events because there is plenty of money and prestige to be gained.

So, it figures the skiers who will secure their spots are the ones closing in on their peak around now. Four years ago, Toby Dawson got so worked up about qualifying for the Olympics, he flamed out and didn’t make the team at all. This time, he’s confident as ever and not willing to let Olympic qualifying ruin his experience.

“There’s a lot of pressure in qualifying and it makes it tough on athletes,” Dawson said. “I let that get to me sometimes. You just have to realize that all those things are very external.”