Freestyle Skiing
Andrea Ferretti
This week in Aspen, the audience was transfixed with his eyes turned towards the sky. He admired the impossible stunts that seem to question the gravitational force performed by athletes with skiing, snowboarding and even snowmobiles. Yes, snowmobiles
Monday 27 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
The town has hosted the U.S. since last Wednesday the Winter X Games 2014 organized by the issuer American ESPN. The event is totally devoted to freestyle in all its forms and winter athletes compete in several categories with jumps and tricks at the edge of the impossible.
For example Thursday Colten Moore earned a gold medal in the final of freestyle snowmobile driving me crazy trick the jury with really impressive. If you do not know very well what we're talking a look at this video introduction to the discipline released by ESPN, you will be in awe seeing that kind of jumps and these athletes are able to do the heavy riding snowmobiles. Also for snowmobiles, race in Long Jump, Levi LaVallee has won the gold medal record by jumping a distance of 50 meters! Watch the video. In this kind of race set-up of the snowmobile, the traction jump and speed play an important role for the drivers.
In Big Air on Friday, the race in which both the skiing snowboarding are seen generally higher jumps and spectacular in the category snowboard Parrot Max was awarded the highest step of the podium by performing a triple cork 1620 inflamed the public in Aspen, look at videos on the site dell'ESPN. Last year it was ranked second.
At Ski Big Air athletes had at their disposal a jump of 22 meters to be able to perform their best trick. The judges were to compare the two highest scores (0 to 50) to decide its best. This year has been particularly tough, with virtually every skier able to close triple cork, the trick to beat. the best was the Swede Henrik Harlaut, like last year. Watch here the amazing tricks that earned him the victory.
In Snowboard X Friday - the framework in which most athletes compete in the starting battery and challenge each other on a path with bumps and jumps - for men medal went to Nate Holland (watch the video), while for women the highly decorated Lindsey Jacobellis.
Also on Friday, at Ski Superpipe for men the victory went once again to David Wise, champion for the third consecutive year. Click here to view video in the descent that earned him the victory. Among women, the best was instead the twenties American Maddie Bowman, click here to see her race.
In ski slopestyle on Saturday, which consists of a descent with a sequence of jumps of different sizes and the use of structures such as rails and boxes, the nineteen year old American Nick Goepper won the gold for men - look here its descent - while for women the best was the Canadian Kaya Turski, here the video.
Snowboard Slopestyle In contrast, for men Max Parrot has earned another gold medal, and Silje Norendal won the women's race in a tight proof, thus winning his second consecutive gold in the discipline. '' The Norwegian athlete will go in a few weeks in Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Olympics debut in Women's Snowboard Slopestyle.
On the event website you can see all the results and videos of the races http://xgames.espn.go.com. The competition ended yesterday, Sunday evening for the'' American time, 7 in the morning over here in Italy.
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