Mark McMorris lands first triple cork in Winter X Games history and takes gold

Contributed by Lindsay Fraka

Saturday, January 28, 2012 9:31am

Photo: Trevor Brown Jr./ESPN

The average human being would laugh in your face if you showed them the Winter X Games 16 Big Air jump and told them to straight line into the lip and huck themselves towards the sky. The competitors last night would laugh in your face if you doubted that they would be absolutely sending it without hesitation off said jump.

Under the bright lights, a select group of snowboarding's top riders dropped into an 80-foot step up jump in attempts..