I did it by locking it in at the last minute. But that battle, it just gives me a little bit more ammunition for Beijing. Anderson, who also earned a silver in big air in Korea in , will head to China with some momentum after edging Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand in the slopestyle final on Saturday.
Hailey Langland will return to the Olympics for a second time after competing in both slopestyle and big air in Pyeongchang. The year-old Kim soared to gold as a teenager in Korea and, like White a decade ago, has become the standard-bearer for her sport, winning five straight events heading to Beijing. Maddie Mastro, the last athlete to beat Kim, will join Kim in China, though she is recovering from an ankle injury suffered after crashing hard at Dew Tour last month.
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Jason Walker: North Carolina judge rules police body camera video in the shooting case can be released. Biden all but concedes defeat on voting, election bills. Anderson, the two-time Olympic champion and seven-time X Games champion in slopestyle, beat a big air field that included every medalist from the last three X Games, plus every Olympic medalist, led by Austrian Anna Gasser who was seventh on Sunday. Anderson, 30, is already the only female snowboarder with multiple Olympic titles.
Anderson is one Winter X Games medal shy of the record 20 held by Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris and two golds shy of the female record held by American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis. American men won snowboard slopestyle Dusty Henricksen and ski slopestyle Nick Goepper.
Henricksen, a year-old X Games rookie, became the first U. Previously, his biggest title was the Youth Winter Olympics. But that hardly mattered. It's what makes me feel good, makes me feel like I've accomplished something.
When I set out to do something and actually do it, that's succeeding. Right before White dropped in, Keene, who's been coaching snowboarders for 24 years, turned to White and said something he's never said to anyone. He then texted the same prediction to White's brother, Jesse. The moment White finished his run, the discussion in the judging booth began. Since White was the final rider, they didn't have to worry about someone eclipsing his score.
Therefore, the was an option. Everyone just knew that's the score they wanted to give. He skims the wall on his last hit? This isn't figure skating, this is an action sport. A finger skim on the best pipe run in history is really irrelevant.
Nevertheless, the judges took heat in the following days. Zikas said as many as 20 people questioned him about the score, including his mom. Given White's polarizing status in a sport in which corporate sponsors are often eschewed by the core, all kinds of theories circulated. Responding to the most common supposition, Wall said: "Nothing's made for TV, it's just who rides the best. If Shaun did his run and butt-checked or fell, we're going to give him a If I-Pod did back-to-back tricks that had never been done and went 15 feet out of the pipe, we're going to give him a perfect score.
It has nothing to do with the name of the person. Thinking back on that night, nearly a year removed from seeing the " I don't ever plan on getting that again.
I think it was the perfect day. With the first perfect SuperPipe run score in X Games history and 24 collective X Games medals in three separate disciplines Slopestyle, SuperPipe and Vert Skateboarding , Shaun White is not only one of the most dominant competitors in the X Games, he's one of the most dominant action sports athletes of all time.
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