X Games Aspen 2013 - Official Thread
Kudos Skip!
Lego has some great style doesn’t look like a gymnest. Should have top marks for style.
TORSTEIN WINS BIG AIR
The highly anticipated triple cork battle claimed the skyline above Buttermilk Mountain Friday night, capping off the second day of competition at X Games Aspen 2013 with a come-from-behind victory by one of the discipline’s pioneers.
With two previous golds to his name, four-time event medalist and 2012 Big Air silver medalist Torstein Horgmo opened the America’s Navy Snowboard Big Air competition with its first triple but lagged behind during much of the 18-minute final, his two-run point total consistently coming up shy against defending gold medalist Mark McMorris and a rampaging Stale Sandbech.
But in the waning minutes, the 25-year-old Norwegian turned it around. Horgmo scored a perfect 50-point run with a switch backside triple cork 1440, the first ever landed in competition, to claim the gold.
“I can’t believe it,” Horgmo said. “I tried it a week ago and I thought I’d give it a shot here. Any of the other podiums I’ve been on ever, this was the best one for sure. This was the craziest level of riding that I’ve ever been a part of.”
McMorris also nailed a critical triple on his final hit of the night, a cab triple underflip 1440—a trick he had never tried before Friday night, and no one has ever landed in competition before. The judges awarded him with a score of 48, which was not enough to overtake Horgmo, but allowed him to nab the silver medal away from Sandbech, who had held the lead for most of the final jam session.
“Torstein is a boss! What can I say,” McMorris said of his friend’s victory. “He just absolutely changed the game of snowboarding, and I’m very, very glad I could be a part of it.”
Sandbech and his consistent, near-perfect aerial awareness would finish respectably with the bronze. Until the final moments, Sandbech was the only rider to have breached the 90-point mark with his best-of-two point total.
McMorris’s final triple tied his score at 94 with Horgmo, but it was the Norwegian’s next-best score—that flawless 50 pointer—that broke the tie.
Other event highlights included Sebastien Toutant’s double backside rodeo 1260s and Ulrik Badertscher going for a clean 1620.
McMorris is scheduled to defend his Slopestyle gold medal Saturday at 3 p.m. ET.
RESULTS
1 Torstein Horgmo 94.00 R
2 Mark McMorris 94.00 R
3 Ståle Sandbech 91.00 R
4 Seppe Smits 68.00 R
5 Ulrik Badertscher 52.00 R
6 Sebastien Toutant 48.00 R
LOUIS-FELIX PARADIS DOUBLES DOWN WITH WIN IN SNOWBOARD STREET
Any one catch Halldor? That guy is out of control
But before that
MARK MCMORRIS WINS SLOPESTYLE
ASPEN, Colo.—Mark McMorris spent months preparing to battle Shaun White in Snowboard Slopestyle at X Games Aspen, but as it turned out, not even White, a five-time gold medalist in this event, was up to challenging McMorris.
The 19-year-old Canadian defended his 2012 gold medal in superlative fashion, posting the day’s top two scores and winning with his third-run 98.00, the highest score in X Games Slopestyle history. That run placed an exclamation point on a competition in which three competitors landed backside triple cork 1440s, a first for the Slopestyle discipline.
White fell on his final two runs after landing the first triple cork of the day in his opening run, and settled for fifth place.
“I’m so glad it’s over,” said McMorris, who showed no fatigue from his silver-medal performance in Navy Snowboard Big Air the night before. “I proved myself the way I wanted to and I’m just a happy camper. I landed a run I don’t think I’ve ever done, really.”
McMorris added of White: “He’s got all the tricks, but he’s just getting back into it.”
Much like last year’s X Games Aspen SuperPipe final, when White earned the first 100-point score in SuperPipe or Slopestyle history, McMorris raised the bar when he could have coasted down the course on a victory lap. He added a difficult cab double cork 1260 to his last run, which bumped his score from 94.66 to 98.00.
“I came here to do the cab 12 and I just felt like it needed to be done,” McMorris said. “The course was too good not to do that run.”
From start to finish, his winning run unfolded as follows: cab 270 to fakie on the down rail, switch lipslide on the up rail, front blunt sameway 270, boardslide gap boardslide to fakie, cab 1260 double cork, frontside 1080 double cork, double wildcat, backside triple cork 1440.
White made a point of waiting around the finish corral to congratulate McMorris before leaving the venue.
“I’m going to let this soak in and hopefully turn it into a motivator,” said White, who hopes to challenge McMorris for the 2014 Olympic gold medal when Slopestyle debuts in Russia.
First, though, he’ll try to win his sixth straight X Games SuperPipe gold medal on Sunday night.
Another Canadian teenager, 18-year-old X Games rookie Max Parrot, earned silver with a triple cork of his own, and Belgium’s Seppe Smits claimed bronze. Parrot only learned the triple cork two weeks ago in Switzerland but landed it with perfect style to earn a 90.00.
RESULTS
1 Mark McMorris 98.00
2 Maxence Parrot 90.00 R
3 Seppe Smits 85.00
4 Chas Guldemond 80.00 R
5 Shaun White 71.00
6 Peetu Piiroinen 66.00 R
7 Aleksander Oestreng R 55.00
8 Gjermund Braaten 18.00 R
triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork, triple cork,
So fucking boring. Sorry I hate comps where its one move to seal the deal.
In my opinion, the best run of the night.
Kudos Skip!
Lago has some great style and doesn’t look like a gymnast. Should have top marks for style.
+2
Scotty Lago’s where it’s at for me. I bet he’s got a huge grin on his face the whole time he’s in there competing. His Olympic performance (ALL of it) is a lot of what I’d like snowboarding to go back to.
KELLY CLARK WINS SUPERPIPE
Kelly Clark scores a 91.33 in Women’s Snowboard Superpipe final at X Games Aspen 2013.
Kazu nails it in that interview - in his own way.
Kazu nails it in that interview - in his own way.
That’s the style
KELLY CLARK WINS SUPERPIPE
Kelly Clark scores a 91.33 in Women’s Snowboard Superpipe final at X Games Aspen 2013.
Can’t believe Height didn’t win.
SHAUN WHITE CLINCHES SIX-PEAT
ASPEN, Colo.—Shaun White brought X Games Aspen to a close Sunday night with another emphatic performance in the SuperPipe he all but owns.
The greatest competitive snowboarder in history routed the field, earning the night’s top two scores including a 98.00 that began with a record-setting 24-foot, 1-inch backside air above the walls of the Buttermilk pipe. With his win, White matched Snowmobile SnoCross racer Tucker Hibbert’s six-peat from Sunday afternoon, the first and second time that’s been done in X Games winter sports history.
White, the oldest competitor in the field at age 26, distanced himself from the youngest athlete of the group, Japanese eighth grader Ayumu Hirano, 14, who claimed silver in his X Games debut with a 92.33. White landed the same run that earned him a perfect 100 in last year’s final, highlighted by back-to-back double cork 1260s on his final two hits.
Finland’s Markus Malin earned the first medal of his X Games career with bronze (91.33).
RESULTS
1 Shaun White 98.00 R
2 Ayumu Hirano 92.33 R
3 Markus Malin 91.33 R
4 Scotty Lago 90.00 R
5 Greg Bretz 84.66 R
6 Louie Vito 73.33 R
7 Christian Haller 36.66 R