X Games Tignes 2011: American dominance

The final day of X Games 2011 in France has brought so many emotions and a shower of medals in America proving, if proof were needed, that the best riders in the world are from overseas! For the slopestyle snowboarding was the giant fight between Chas Guldemond and Sebastien Toutant, who saw Chas prevailed thanks to an amazing second run from scoring stratospheric 99.33! Never a rider in the history of X Games had achieved a score so high! Third place went to another American Erik Willett.

In the same discipline, but for women, won the "usual" Jamie Anderson makes the difference not so much on the jumps but especially on rails and combinations which she interpreted definitely at a speed unmatched. Second place, the beautiful Norwegian Silje Norendall with the Best Trick contest ... BS Rodeo 7 so sick! Finland's third Enni Rukajarvi.

During the night the event took place that everyone has been waiting longer than expected, the super pipe! Appointment absent local riders, sensationally eliminated in qualifying, but the emotions and the twists are not missed. The favorite Iouri "iPod" Podlatchikov in the first run shows all his talent with Double Bs Rodeo and Double McTwist, enough to take on the top step of the podium. When the game reaches the American seemed to be made in Ohio, Louie Vito, who with two back to back Double Cork 1080 double cork third and final conquest of the throne of this magnificent super pipe. In a press conference all relaxed and happy, well Podlatchikov who complimented Vito and ammetette that today was just unbeatable. Third place for Christian Haller, double BS Rodeo for the Swiss rider For the free ski

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women, Sarah Burke landslide victory, his fifth career success in the X Games! Surprising his Cork 9 ... stilosissimo trick and closed with a precision that rivals any man.