Winter X Games 14 are over. Four days in Aspen and not a feature was spared. An X-plosion of awesome-ness in Aspen. Full action breakdown and results, right here!
Shaun White was doing his thing, double McTwist 1260, massive backside air and a frontside double-cork 1080 and more. iPod landed both a front double-cork 10 up top and a backside double-cork 10 at the bottom, solidifying his spot on the podium and marking the first time he has ever landed two double corks in a competition. Kazu was hot on iPod’s heels with a ballistic run of all huge airs, whether he was linking up 10 to 10 to couble cork 10, or just straight airin’ simply for the pleasure of tweaking his board.
Men’s Superpipe Results
- Shaun White
- Iouri Podladtchikov
- Kazuhiro Kokubo
- Greg Bretz
- J.J. Thomas
- Steve Fisher
- Luke Mitrani
- Louie Vito
Gretchen Bleiler had a ballistic run a boosty frontside 9 into a backside five followed by a Crippler seven into back-to-back 720s. Nuts is right. As the winning qualifier from the elimination round, Clark dropped last, and with Gretchen in first place after the aforementioned sick run, Kelly had her work cut out for her dropping into her third and final run. She dropped and went fourteen feet out on a frontside air. Her rampage continued down the pipe with a back five, frontside 900, and stompy back-to back-720s. Hannah Teter touched down in third place, but she sketched all three runs and was a whopping 26 points behind Clark and Bleiler.
Women’s Superpipe Finals
- Gretchen Bleiler
- Kelly Clark
- Hannah Teter
- Soko Yamaoka
- Ellery Hollingsworth
- Elena Hight
Transworld’s 2010 Rookie of the Year Halldor Helgason (new Bluetomato Team Member) started off with a double-cork frontside 1080, then a double-cork backside 1260 and laid out backflip. Chasing his heels was Torstein Horgmo, who set down 1260s galore—both Cab and switch backside—along with a savage back 1080. Mikkel Bang kicked off his finals with a picture-perfect switch backside 1260, then a frontside 1080, then a lofty backside rodeo, but when he tried to up the ante to double back rodeo, he ran into trouble and sat in the landing.
Big Air Results
- Halldor Helgason
- Torstein Horgmo
- Mikkel Bang
- Eero Ettala
- Tyler Flanagan
Eero Ettala landed this: backside 1080 double cork into double-backside rodeo 900 followed up by a switch double back flip—a freeking insane run. Eric Willet landed back to back double-cork 1080s in a savage fashion for a second place score that stuck for the rest of the afternoon. Chas Guldemond rocked a back rodeo off the cannon feature, then slapped down Cab 10, switch backside 900, and backside 1080 on the kicker line for podium-place number three. Unfortunately, Halldor kept looking for back-to-back double corks, today, but apparently this was not his day to shine.
Men’s Slopestyle Finals
- Eero Ettala
- Eric Willett
- Chas Guldemond
- Torstein Horgmo
- Sage Kotsenburg
- Mikkel Bang
- Tim Humphreys
- Halldor Helgason
Last year’s defending champ, Jenny Jones, who was riding on an injured knee chose her third run to handle business with back-to-back 540s (frontside and Cab) and a frontside 720—all sick tricks, made sicker because they they were done back to back like that. Elimination-round-winner Jamie Anderson’s run included front three nose-tap on the “hitching post,” backside 180, Cab 540, and a floaty front 360 on the “money booter.” Second run was Janna Meyen’s time to shine. Frontside 50-50 on the down rail, 50-50 to front boardslide on the kinked rail into backside 540, Cab 720, Cab 900!!! But she slightly under-rotated it, leading to a bit of a sketch and hand drag.
Women’s Slopestyle Finals
- Jenny Jones
- Jamie Anderson
- Janna Meyen-Weatherby
- Kjesti Oestgaard Buaas
- Hana Beaman
- Cheryl Maas
