Hot! Shaun White Wins X Games Gold Again In Halfpipe

2012 Winter X Games

Jan 30:

Casey Puckett areas fifth inside X Games farewell

Jan 29:

Shaun White makes prime position within X Games superpipe qualifier

ASPEN Perfection. Shaun White, that iconic snowboarding master of halfpipe, witout a doubt experienced their five-peat.

But in his lastly and very last victory spin down your Winter X Games superpipe Sunday night, the flame-maned pipe slayer resolved to go higher, spun a lot more and notched a traditional 100-point score. It was the very first great fico score and great work ever before affecting a halfpipe contest.

At the top of the pipe, White's coach, Bud Keane, forecasted White would make a great history in the event he or she could cleanly remain his run, which often involved the particular first-ever back-to-back double-cork 1260s.

"I appeared to be considering they has been merely excited. I followed through and almost everything felt perfect," said White, his or her correct observation black plus your bloody scar on his / her face out of failing

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to stay the third trick of their second run. "I have no idea of if I've ever previously ended up my dual Mc12 as fresh when I have tonight, and the just set me personally upwards fantastic for any frontside double-cork 12. I guess the primary ever to complete back for you to to come back double-cork 12s. I unquestionably attained the actual dark eye the following going for it."

Before the idea perhaps started, it was a fight pertaining to magical and bronze.

In his getting qualification circle sooner in the day, White enhanced above your dog have around continue year's Winter X finals. Topping your qualifiers number and also starting inside enviable last position, White putting on a leather-based coat and skin-tight zebra-pattern slacks and also his signature charcoal bandana essential merely their initial cost lay claim the first-ever fifth consecutive Winter X yellow metal inside halfpipe.

In their first of some runs Sunday night, this individual spun their signature double-backflip McTwist 1260 along with logged a 94-point history of which withstood actually double-backflipping on the eight various other competitors. White cruised to his / her 12th X Games precious metal as well as 17th X Games medal.

He perhaps have slid his / her second and also third owns on their abdominal and however won. Still, this individual dug deeply with regard to his ultimate triumph lap and, after currently solidifying his five-peat, used down the best halfpipe run ever seen.

White joins snowboardercross speed Nate Holland and snowmobile racer Tucker Hibbert since the just X Games some athletes to help earn personal training consecutive platinum medals.

Swiss rider Iouri Podladtchikov known as Ipod worked tricky in order to derail White's quest for your five-peat. The only some other snowboarder capable to dispose of White's double McTwist 1260 and also the merely snowboarder regarded to kick the item switch, Podladtchikov failed to expand the silent and invisible trick. With also needs to work history of 93 points, the Swiss driver ended up being unable to bundle White out of his or her throne but closed way up your silver.

Podladtchikov claimed he or she seemed to be struggling with that change trick Sunday, having "slow" tricks.

"I had been kind of planning on it," this individual mentioned of his move double 12. "That hit had not been being nice in my experience today. I kept clinching flat, and also the switch airs failed to workout the best way jointly have, and I just simply didn't have enough fruit juice today. That arrive true soon. Real soon."

Ryo Aono's frontside double 1080 as well as the solely butt 1080 regarding this sweepstakes earned that Japanese patient a bronze.

White suffered an ankle injuries around slopestyle perform Thursday along with dropped with the X Games slopestyle contest. He passed on the pipe perform program Saturday night time and found five training works first Sunday morning just before acing qualifying.

White spent a lot of Sunday dunking their ankle around buckets regarding the rocks as well as warm water.

"It seemed to be your trickiest decision on this X Games, obviously, to help move beyond slopestyle the final minute, and I'm pleased I did," he / she said. "I was able to do what exactly I have inside the pipe tonight due to it."