Nestled in the French Alps, in the cozy mountain village of Tignes Le Claret, a pristine 22' superpipe was the sight of extreme action during the women's halfpipe finals at the second annual Euro X Games.

All week, the international riders spoke highly of the pipe, claiming it was the best size and shape they've ridden all season. The high praises for the enormous U-tube were stopped short today by a storm that crept in and turned conditions from perfect to perilous. Low visibility, rutted walls, and falling snow made tonight's superpipe contest an interesting one, claiming many top riders early in the game.

Not a single girl out the twelve international heavies was able to cleanly land all three of her runs, and only two girls were able to solidly landed two run out of their three runs.

Gretchen Bleiler took a nasty fall in practice that broke her helmet, and fell on all three runs in the same spot, while trying to land her second hit. Japan's Soko Yamaoka, met a similar fate and wiped out hard on her last two runs, even scoring a black-eye for a miscalculated deck hit.

Surprisingly, even Kelly Clark fell tonight in her last two runs. It's becoming more of a story when Kelly falls, because normally she stomps everything she sends. Twas not the case this evening, but the halfpipe dominatrix still claimed yet another win.

Clark put down a massive first run that included a frontside 720, Cab 720, frontside 900, backside 540, frontside 540 that earned her a winning score of 92.66. Clark, who is used to one-uping herself, went for all the marbles tonight by trying to land a new trick in her second and third runs. The trick is an inverted 7, but Clark just missed it, by sketching out on the landing.

At the end of comp, Kelly said "I wanted to link it up with the 900 and the 1080. I couldn't quite pull it tonight, but you know if you don't try then you never land it."

She may have not landed the run she wanted, but this first place finish marks her tenth win of the season and her ninth Winter X Games Gold. This win solidifies Clark as the best halfpipe rider in the world and it's becoming increasingly harder for anyone to catch her fire.

The closest one to do so tonight was Vermont do-gooder Hannah Teter. The two time Olympian was nipping at Clark's heels with a top score of 91. Teter sent her first two hits double overhead the European crowd that "oooo la la-ed" at her magnitude and effortless style.

The crazy French announcer exclaimed "Benga, Benga' at the sight of Hannah's run, which must be French for 'Oh My Gosh, Hannah's 9 was huge' or something like that. The announcer was spewing fantastic flurries of French all night, but most of it was incomprehensible, even to the French.

What was understood, was that Spain's Queralt Castellet placed third for her lofty airs and technical spins. Q sent it on her first run, and earned a solid 89.33 which was over 8 points higher than fourth place finisher Kaitlyn Farrington.

With the conclusion of Euro X, the ladies of superpipe will head to the Roxy Chicken Jam in Mammoth next week for the last mega contest of the season.

How much would you bet that Kelly will win again?