This year's X Games were more about the marquee stars than the individual events. Few names are bigger than Jamie Anderson when it comes to the Winter X Games, and she added two more golds to her illustrious resume in the women's snowboard slopestyle and women's snowboard big air competitions.
She has seven X Games championships and two Olympic gold medals in slopestyle but turned heads in a loaded big-air field that also featured every Olympic medalist. Anderson needs one more Winter X Games medal to tie Mark McMorris' all-time record of 20 and two more golds to tie Lindsey Jacobellis' record on the women's side.
She also became the first woman to compete in the Knuckle Huck contest. While she impressed and made history, she and the rest of the field fell short of victor and X Games rookie Dusty Henricksen.
Henricksen, 17, also won gold in the men's snowboard slopestyle and defeated a field that included Olympic champion Red Gerard. Another notable Olympic champion thrived, as Chloe Kim won the women's snowboard superpipe for her fifth snowboard halfpipe title in Aspen.
One of Kim's six and one of Clark's seven X Games halfpipe titles came in competition outside of Aspen. Making Kim's performance all the more impressive is the fact that she took last year's event off because she was taking freshman classes at Princeton.
Speaking of making history, Eileen Gu won the women's ski superpipe and the women's ski slopestyle while also taking home bronze in the women's ski big air. Her three medals while representing China equaled the country's total in the year history of the X Games, and she called the stretch "the best two days of my life. There was supposed to be something of a grand finale Sunday after so much thrilling competition with Shaun White's return to competitive snowboarding for the first time since the Pyeongchang Olympics in the men's superpipe, but he withdrew after suffering a knee injury in practice.
That spoiled the anticipated showdown between White and Scotty James, although James managed just silver thanks to an impressive showing by gold-medalist Yuto Totsuka. Over the holidays last year, they were virtually impossible to find in-store and online due to heightened demand. But despite the ease of use and convenience and generally reliable results , the pregnancy-test-like visual indicator is less than optimal.
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She returned to competition this month after taking 21 months off to focus on her first year at Princeton University. Making Kim's performance all the more impressive is the fact that she took last year's event off because she was taking freshman classes at Princeton.
Speaking of making history, Eileen Gu won the women's ski superpipe and the women's ski slopestyle while also taking home bronze in the women's ski big air. Her three medals while representing China equaled the country's total in the year history of the X Games, and she called the stretch "the best two days of my life. There was supposed to be something of a grand finale Sunday after so much thrilling competition with Shaun White's return to competitive snowboarding for the first time since the Pyeongchang Olympics in the men's superpipe, but he withdrew after suffering a knee injury in practice.
That spoiled the anticipated showdown between White and Scotty James, although James managed just silver thanks to an impressive showing by gold-medalist Yuto Totsuka. Do watch out for teen phenom Kelly Sildaru, however. Projected winner: Rene Rinnekangas. Back for a third year, the quirky and fun competition has quickly become a fan favorite and likely is going to stick around. The year-old won Aspen slopestyle silver in and the knuckle huck winner tends to be a surprise, so Rinnekangas fits that mold.
Watch out for the lone American in Dusty Henricksen, a year-old X Games rookie who is rising the ranks quickly. Projected winner: Cassie Sharpe. But I wonder how fresh her legs will be after also competing in big air earlier in the day. Only 18, the Estonian already has nine X Games medals — including five gold — and has competed in all three of the main ski events in the past few years.
Oh, and Sharpe also is the reigning Olympic gold medalist. Projected winner: Alex Ferreira. Too many people know where I live. So a three-peat is certainly possible. His competition are all familiar foes, including two-time Olympic gold medalist David Wise of Nevada and two-time world champion Aaron Blunck from over the hill in Crested Butte.
Projected winner: Kelly Sildaru. Three events in less than 24 hours for Sildaru? Kind of a normal X Games for her, honestly. Sildaru is just next-level amazing. The Canadian legend has won 20 medals at Winter X, winning both No.
But McMorris only finished seventh in Aspen last year a stupid reason to pick against him, maybe. Max Parrot, a fellow Canadian who also is among the all-time greats, has 13 X Games medals and won slopestyle gold in Norway last year this after beating cancer the previous year.
Projected winner: Anna Gasser. The contest was a dominant Japanese podium sweep, with Miyabi Onitsuka winning gold, Kokomo Murase silver and Reira Iwabuchi bronze.
All three are back and all should be among the favorites. A key note to make here is that the contest will be held on the final jump of the slopestyle course, and not the traditional big air jump.
Gasser is a four-time X Games gold medalist three in big air , but only one of those came in Aspen when she won the big air contest. Projected winner: Andri Ragettli.
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