White and Jones Win X Games Slopestyle
lgallagher
- January 25 2009
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Peetu Piiroinen. Photo: Chris Wellhausen
So the slopestyle turned out a lot better than it could have.
With wintery conditions persisting all morning, as the women were readying for the slope finals things were looking nasty. The female skiers were first up yesterday and played the role of guinea pigs on the course. They didn’t fare well.
It was dumping and the slope run was slow. So slow that a lot of the girls were knuckling. Rumor was one girl dislocated a knee, and as we rode the lift up to the top of the run to check out the shreds, we saw one girl who was being attended to by a half-dozen medics in the landing of the last jump.
The vibe at the top of the course was serious. With just six girls in the finals there weren’t too many lurking around the “Athlete Staging” tent. But those that were there were throwing a lot of high fives, encouraging words and “I love you’s”. These girls are serious competitors, but they’re friends first and all about hyping each other up. And they need all the positive vibrations they could get. The weather was clearing up, it’d more or less stopped snowing, but the course still had it’s tricky sections. With all the new snow all the landing were getting pretty rutted and bumped out. But the girls kept their heads down and put up some solid runs.
Relative rookie Megan Ginter was charging, throwing massive back threes and one back seven. Her efforts would earn her a bronze in this her second X-Games appearance. Spencer O’Brien was throwing down some serious runs, maybe the smoothest of the day. But, Spencer fell on her last run and left the door open for the Brit Jenny Jones. And Jones stepped-up, dropped in and hammered out one helluva run, which ended with a front seven and earned her the gold.
And then…as soon as the women were done the dudes were taking a few practice runs. The warm-ups were ridiculous. The dudes handled the course like they were mini-shredding. It looked like a video, or really a video game.
Shaun qualified 8th which meant he was first to drop, which meant he’d have to put up he best runs and just hope he didn’t get bumped out by all the remaining riders. He only posted a 50 point first run, but came back on his second and put up a 96. And that run would stand as the best of the day and Shaun’s ticket to X-Games gold. Lago was hot on his tail and stomped two clean runs, but only got 94.66 from the judges. Mikkel Bang followed these two and ended up taking third with a best run score of 91.33.
Results
Women’s
Jenny Jones:90.00
Spencer O’Brien: 87.66
Megan Ginter: 82.00
Kjersti Oestgaard Buaas: 75.00
Hana Beaman: 65.33
Kimmy Fasani: 64.00
Men’s
Shaun White: 96
Scotty Lago: 94.66
Mikkel Bang: 91.33
Chas Guldemond: 91
Peetu Piiroinen:90.33
Andreas Wiig: 89.00
Tim Humphreys: 88.66
Jussi Oksanen:75.00
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January 25th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
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January 25th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Lago got RIPPED OFF! Are you kidding me? Since when does a gap transfer beat a perfectly stomped 12? BULLSHIT and hey judges, you can stop kissing Shaun and Burton’s asses.
January 25th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
i thought tony hawk won, he can do 900’s you know
January 25th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Hehe, Shaun won again…
January 25th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
alright bitches, i love scotty lago, one of the sickest kids out there, but the anouncers said it, if you wanna beat shaun you gotta cross that channel. would i have loved to see lago win it? heck yes. but what would you rather see: a skier as the most decprated rider in winter x history or a snowboarder? can these guys beat shaun? yes, it’s been done twice. but they just need to throw down when it counts. what shaun did on that crossover canyon was insane, he literally forced his body to do something it would not do otherwise. anyone whose head isn’t moderately up their ass can see that shaun won. thank you
January 25th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
yeah word that hard way 7 transfer was out of control.
January 25th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
you can’t trust what the announcers say. those fools call shit out wrong all the time. case in point a few years back when they said he did 4 1080’s in one run. and he only actually did two tens. morons
January 25th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Perfectly stomped 12 is one aspect of the run. Lago wimped out on two obstacles.
To me, the judges got it exactly right. Lago was awesome, but was a step behind Shaun.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
do you just wake up early and look for forums that havent been posted on just so you can have the rewarding feeling of posting first? why does anyone care. quit it man, and acctually post something that’s worth reading.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
yeah i dont really like shawn but i agree with him winning, he was the only one to do the gap over the canyon
torstein shoulda been in it, he fuckin kills it
January 25th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
i just watched it on freecaster again.. and you know who got robbed? peetu piiroinen. he was so much better than chas, no disrespect to chas, but peetu killed it so hard and i think peetu, mikkel and scotty had the best style of the evening.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
for the most part announcers know what theyre doing but they are human and do make mistakes you know. i’d like to see you call every trick right - on the spot.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
yeah get sal and todd out of there…on his run that won, his cab 9 (safety trick) got announced as a 10. laater shaun white fans go to target so you can pick up his latest gear
January 25th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
even travis rice couldn’t gap that canyon…….
January 25th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
don’t you wish you could cab 9? let alone have it as a “safety” trick.
January 25th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
shaun won. chill out. hes got a little too much hetty brah to him but w/e, he doesnt seem to be a dbag really..and he had the dopest run. i cant believe there is this much complaining. step up and make your own decision about it, the haterade is flowing and yall are drinking it up. now, i wish they wouldve shown kp’s run in the pipe bc im not sure shaun won it there
January 25th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
The best part is that she’s actually second! LOL!
January 25th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
shaun’s back 7 over the channel was insane he deserved the win.
January 25th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Winter X = Big Joke. Period
Lago and Pierce should be wearing the gold
January 25th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Winter X = Big Joke. Period
Lago and Pierce should be wearing the gold
and boobs your an idiot
January 25th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
did you watch the other runs or did you just wait until the highlights came on? because theres no way he had the best run
January 26th, 2009 at 12:02 am
uh you know that before every contest they have the riders list the tricks there going to do in order right? just thought i’d share that with you, and shaun could aired all of the jumps and still brought home gold, next year it should just be called The “White” Games
January 26th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Big fat Phony!!!!
January 26th, 2009 at 10:31 am
yeah, but noone else crossed the canyon did they? and in someone else’s run they said 1440 instead of 1260. they corrected themselves afterward, but it goes to show that shaun’s runs aren’t the only ones getting screwed. another thing, the anouncers aren’t the judges.the anouncers aren’t the ones you want to go yell at and i’m sure the judges can judge the run without the anouncers telling them what the tricks are. once again: skier as most decorated athlete in winter x or snowboarder?
January 26th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Lago and Bang got ripped off. Sure Shaun gapped the canyon, but his style is lacking compared to the other two. No one even picked up on the fact that Mikkel Bang was the only rider that actually buttered on the butter box. The x games are a joke, period.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
does anyone kno what jacket that shawn white was wearin? im feelin it
January 27th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
in the slopestyle gold run? ^^^^
January 30th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
what you just said pissed me off more than the first comment…