Winter X Games 2012 Aspen, CO - Results and Highlights
SNOWBOARD STREET
Winter X Games rookie Forest Bailey won gold in Snowboard Street at Winter X Games 2012 on Thursday, beating out Ryan Paul and Nick Visconti after making the most of street-inspired features like a metal cargo container, a concrete Jersey barrier, and a set of handrails and ledges.
“I definitely can’t believe it,” Bailey said, after Thursday’s final. Bailey is better known for film parts than as a contest rider, and had a standout part in the Givin crew’s 2011 film “One.”
“I never thought I’d even come to X Games in my whole life, but I guess we’re here and I guess gold will do,” said Bailey.
Bailey lead after Round 1, making it into the five-man final with Paul, Visconti, Ethan Deiss, and Phil Jacques. His 270 to frontside on the cargo container was a highlight of the competition, and his win was doubly impressive since he missed practice on Wednesday and showed up on course just one hour before Thursday’s elimination round. For the last two weeks he’s been busy riding powder at Mount Baker in Washington.
“It was probably one of the best rail set ups I’ve ever ridden,” Bailey said. “It was mellow, not super gnarly or super scary, just really fun so everyone could throw down their best tricks. It was weird coming from Baker, where no one was around, to this kind of crowd. Everyone was killing it. It was a great contest.”
Forest Bailey had a dream performance Thursday in the Snowboard Street final.
Paul had the most surprising tricks of the day, with a 270 on the Jersey barrier to 450 out and a gap to 50-50 on the down-flat ledge feature to wildcat backflip out. As the last seconds of the finals jam session wound down, he stepped it up with a Cab 180 to 50-50 on the ledge to backside rodeo out.
“I have a trampoline and when I wake up every morning I just backflip over and over again,” Paul explained, after the competition.
Visconti spent most of the finals jam terrorizing the rails with tricks like a switch hardway frontside 270 on the down rail, a 270 onto a curved C-rail, and frontside 50-50 to 180 out on the cargo container.
“Forest’s style is unmatched and it was rad just to watch him out there snowboarding today,” Visconti said. “Yesterday, while we were all out here in practice, Forest was out getting after it in the powder. He’s a true snowboarder and he deserved the win today.”
FULL RESULTS:
COLTON MOORE SNOWMOBILE CRASH
Jamie Anderson Wins Gold in Snowboard Slopestyle
ASPEN, Colo.—Jamie Anderson is now 6-for-6 in podium finishes in women’s Snowboard Slopestyle at the Winter X Games.
Her gold medal Friday is her third. She dominated the competition, posting a Run 1 score of 94.00, then improving to 95.33 in Run 3—the highest score in a women’s Snowboard Slopestyle final at Winter X Games—to hold her lead over Kjersti Oestgaard Buaas and defending champion Enni Rukajärvi.
A dumping of fresh snow overnight at Buttermilk made for challenging conditions, and the four close-together jumps left little room for error.
Added to the difficulty factor was the light, which disappeared into afternoon shadows on the landings. Of the entire women’s field, only three finished complete runs.
“The toughest thing on the course was definitely the jumps,” Buaas said after the contest. “Jamie, you’re a gangster.”
The only contests Jamie Anderson didn’t win last year, she placed second. And she keeps getting better.
Anderson was the only competitor who put down not one, but two strong, stomped runs, complete with a Cab 720 tailgrab, switch backside 540, backside 540, and switch backside 180 in the four-jump line.
“Usually when I get to an event, I try to think of the best possible run I could maybe do,” Anderson said afterward. “I was working on a run all week and I didn’t really have a safety run. I just wanted to put it down.”
Anderson won Winter X Games Slopestyle gold in 2007 and 2008; silver in 2010; and bronze in 2011.
Last year, she won the overall titles on the TTR World Tour and the Winter Dew Tour, and she’s off to an early lead on this season’s Burton Global Open series, after a Slopestyle win at the Burton New Zealand Open.
“I’ve been working hard learning some new tricks and trying to get them a little more solid,” Anderson said. “It feels great to be back on top after getting third last year.”
RESULTS:
VIDEOS
Day 1 Highlights:
Sarah Burke Tribute:
Snowboard Street Final Highlights
Forrest Bailey Gold in Snowboard Street:
RESULTS
Men’s Big Air Final:
Women’s SuperPipe Final:
Stories, photos, and videos from these events will be posted soon.
SHAUN WHITE PULLS OUT OF SLOPESTYLE
TORSTEIN HORGMO PERFECT TRIPLE CORK - BIG AIR FINAL
Torstein Horgmo scores a perfect 50 in Snowboard Big Air with a backside triple cork.
Thanks for posting those, Skip! 
No worries, you better come back here quick so you can see me do a triple cork 
. JK hahah, but Torstein’s triple is done with stylleeee
Cheers Boxy and skip!
VIDEOS:
Women’s Snowboarder X Final
Men’s Snowboarder X Final
Day 3 Highlights
Shaun White 3rd Run SuperPipe - Perfect 100 Score