Add in tricks and you have a dangerous enough event that the whole family can enjoy. Now, I first fell in love with this event at the summer X-Games with the skateboarders, but something about doing it on snow makes this even cooler see what I did there. With huge trick after huge trick, this is the kind of event that could get even non-fans of the sport watching as athlete after athlete hits mind-rattling moves.
While I have never been a fan of skiing, when those athletes get on their skis and hit that superpipe, they are something to watch. After a brief training run on snow ramps in Michigan, he was ready for his sport's biggest stage -- the Winter X Games. In that contest, Moore captured a bronze in freestyle and finished sixth in best trick.
Vaught said Moore didn't believe his sport was too extreme, but rather "it was a lifestyle. Freestyle snowmobile rider Caleb Moore died Thursday from injuries he suffered a week earlier during the Snowmobile Freestyle competition at X Games Aspen.
Browse through our photo gallery for a look at the career of the athlete and colorful personality. But he was first guy to get back on a sled and go try it again. It shows a lot of heart. X Games officials said in a statement that they would conduct a thorough review of freestyle snowmobiling events and adopt any appropriate changes.
Still, when the world's best compete at the highest level in any sport, risks remain," they said, noting that Moore was hurt performing a move he had done several times before. Learn more. X Games Aspen Schedule Announcement. X Games Aspen Returns Jan. X Games Aspen Is Back! Highlight Reel: X Games Aspen Best of Skateboarding: X Games Hibbert was hardly the only talented teen rookie: year-old Shaun White and year-old Kelly Clark also debuted at the Winter X Games that year.
While Winter X got younger, the Half Pipe grew up. Todd Richards took advantage of the increased size, linking s for his second Winter X gold. Tara Dakides repeated in Slopestyle on the strength of her signature grabbed backflip and added gold in Big Air.
Kevin Jones successfully defended his Slopestyle title, killing the down-kink rail with a backside to out. Jones' fourth Winter X medal highlighted the progressive rail moves that were brought to the park. Two new skiing disciplines were added: Slopestyle and SuperPipe. The event drew 36, spectators, as well as the entire U. Snowboard SuperPipe gold medalist J. Thomas' McTwists topped out at about 15 feet above the deck, Travis Rice featured a rodeo and in his winning Slopestyle run, but it was year-old Shaun White who captured imaginations by taking silver in both disciplines.
Kelly Clark crushed women's SuperPipe, airing 10 feet above the deck and finished first with an enormous point margin over second place. She then went on to win the Winter Olympic gold medal that year as well. Reggie Crist took Skier X gold a year after brother Zach did. Attendance over the four-day event increased by more than 12, from , with a total of 48, spectators. Shaun White linked a frontside to a Cab in SuperPipe and flashed a Cab melon grab in Slopestyle to win the gold medal in both competitions.
After a disappointing debut in , Skiing SuperPipe became a fan favorite as Candide Thovex used lofty s and an inverted to best Tanner Hall. Hall did go on to claim Slopestyle gold. The on-site spectator total of 66, was the highest in the event's three-year history. For the first time in X Games history, the event was telecast live on ESPN and ABC, and the average viewership for Winter X set an all-time record by exceeding the previous year's household average by 30 percent..
Fisher landed a for his win while Teter linked a McTwist to a and then took a victory lap wearing a bib and sports bra. Relatively unheralded Canadian Michael Island confidently predicted in practice that he would foil Blair Morgan's bid for a SnoCross four-peat -- and he did just that, besting Tucker Hibbert as well.
Mono Skier X is introduced as a demo event. ESPN's four primetime telecasts earned a 0. On-site attendance also reached a record high with a total of 69, Finland's Antti Autti used back-to-back s for Snowboard SuperPipe gold; he became the first non-American to take the discipline.
Winter X Games 10 was held Jan. The on-site spectator total of 69, was the second-highest in the event's five-year history in Aspen and a 92 percent increase from the first Winter X Games in Aspen. On Nov. Snowmobile Freestyle featured 10 riders competing on the inaugural Winter X Games freestyle course.
On Dec. Janna Meyen made Winter X history, and became the first athlete to four-peat. Shaun White joined Meyen almost immediately when he also won Slopestyle gold. White used three s to add another SuperPipe title and then exploded into superstar status weeks later when he won the Winter Olympic gold. Winter X legend Blair Morgan tallied his fifth gold and eighth overall SnoCross medal when upstart Levi LaVallee -- who had an enormous lead -- crashed at the start of the final lap.
LaVallee recovered for silver, his second Winter X top-three. It was Morgan's final Winter X podium. Tanner Hall gained his first Skiing SuperPipe gold and Grete Eliassen successfully defended her crown in the second year of the women's event. When bad weather turned Skiing Slopestyle into Best Trick, TJ Schiller landed the best variation of the 15 competitors who attempted one.
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