Wednesday, July 8, 2009 1:48pm PDT

Tanner Hall Retires from Contest Circuit

By: Newschoolers

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Tanner Hall, one of the winningest freeskiers in history, has announced he is retiring from the competition circuit.

Hall, who has won three back-to-back medals in both X Games slopestyle and superpipe, recently made the decision after breaking both of his tibial plateaus and tearing both of his ACL's after overshooting at jump at Stevens Pass in May while filming with TGR.

"I'm kind of over and done with the contest scene," Hall recently told ESPN. "I came in and it was ten good years of having fun. Now I think it's time for the next chapter in what I want to do and where I want to take skiing, so I'm going to be focusing on making more film projects."


Tanner Hall mid-flatspin at the X Games. Photos by John Vandervalk. www.majestyphoto.com

 

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shibbyr2286

Posted by shibbyr2286 July 14, 2009 10:02am PDTReply | Report Abuse

That top picture is definatley Tanner's win at the DEW TOUR not X-Games

Adryan Roane Ritter

Posted by Adryan Roane Ritter July 14, 2009 10:04am PDTReply | Report Abuse

You are totally right. Our bad. Nice attention to detail. Keep the call-outs coming. They are good for our ego.

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