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Colorado native, Eric Willet, finally got his at the European Winter X Games. After taking home the silver in the Winter X Games in Aspen, Willett stomped his run in Tignes to get the Gold. With a tiring and demanding eight feature course at the event, all the riders seemed to be leaning toward the haggard side with their strength running thin. However, after a night of drawing runs and brainstorming, two Americans, Sage Kotsenburg and Eric Willett, landed the top two spots on the podium, followed by Slovenia's Marko Grilc.
Willett's gold-worthy run was made up of a half Cab 5-0 to backside 180 on the "Railway to Heaven", Cab 9, back 7, front double cork 1080, one clean backside rodeo, switch back 9, 50/50, and a double back rodeo. Chasing after him with the silver was the Dew Tour Slopestyle Champ, Sage Kotsenburg.
Men's Slopestyle Final
1st - Eric Willett 91.00
2nd - Sage Kotsenburg 85.33
3rd - Marko Grilc 83.66
4th - Stephan Maurer 82.66
5th - Chas Guldemond 70.66
6th - Christian Haller 67.66
7th - Travis Rice 50.33
8th - Iouri Podlatchikov 49.33
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What the women's superpipe lacked in faces that have been blasted all over the media with the Olympic frenzy including Kelly Clark and Gretchen Bleiler, it did not lack in banger riding.
With most riders admitting that it'd be impossible to take on Olympic gold medalist, Torah Bright, it didn't seem like it would be much of a different result than that of Vancouver. However, the spectators and competitors were proved wrong by 20-year-old Dew Tour Superpipe Champ, Kaitlyn Farrington with her first X Games gold.
Going into finals it was head to head with Torah in the lead, but when Farrington laid down her second run loaded with a text book back 9, inverted frontside 7, Cab 7, and an alley oop 5, all was said and done. It earned her a 97.00, moving her above Torah's 95.00 top score. Rounding out the podium with the bronze was France's, Sophie Rodriguez.
Women's Superpipe Final
1st - Kaitlyn Farrington 97.00
2nd - Torah Bright 95.00
3rd - Sophie Rodriguez 87.00
4th - Mercedes Nicoll 82.33
5th - Ellery Hollingsworth 79.00
6th - Kjersti Oestgaard Buass 78.66
France scored a gold and silver at home in Men's Ski Superpipe on Wednesday night when Kevin Rolland and Xavier Bertoni both threw down technical and difficult runs. Rolland's run, however, was unmatched. His winning run was complete with two double flips and double cork 1260 mute grab. He was the first skier to ever throw this in competition at the Winter X Games in Aspen and the only skier to land it in competition. These two frenchmen were more than stoked to claim the number one and two spots.
The bronze belonged to Canadian Justin Dorey with his back to back doubles.
Men's Ski Superpipe Final
1st - Kevin Rolland 95.66
2nd - Xavier Bertoni 92.00
3rd - Justin Dorey 86.66
4th - Mike Riddle 85.00
5th - Byron Weels 84.33
6th - Jossi Wells 82.66
7th - Tucker Perkins 80.33
8th - AJ Kemppainen 75.33
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More final results to come!
