Aspen Colorado welcomed the Winter X Games 13 to town yesterday for the opening day of competition. As expected, everybody was going huge in the thin rocky mountain air for the 3 golds up for grabs. The winners in Mens big air, ski superpipe and snowmobile speed and style, however, were not as expected. Usa's Tanner Hall was denied his 4th consecutive x games gold by frenchman Xavier Bertoni who bested Hall with a series of enormous 1260s and tech switch tricks in the olympic sized superpipe. Snowmobile speed and style defending champion Levi Lavallee also suffered an upset at the hands of Joe Parsons. Lavallee faltered on a christ air, failing to extend the trick during the style course, which opened the door for Parsons. After perfectly executing his style run and beating Lavallees time in the speed, the gold was his. The most anticipated event of day 1 was mens big air. Defending gold medalist Torstein Horgmo of Norway faced the USA's Travis Rice in the final. Rice was looking for payback, as last year, Torstein beat Rice for the gold in the same event. Rice would exact his revenge, throwing a double cork 1080 to beat Torstein's switch backside 1260. "It was a pleasure to go up against Torstein and win,' Rice said at the press conference.? ' The kid is the future, but America has got my back." The voting for the gold was done via fan text messages, a la american idol, and america has spoken. Rice is golden.

Stay tuned for more action from Aspen... Word on the street is that Levi Lavallee will be attempting a double backflip on his snowmobile tonight. check out his foam pit attempts below...