2013 winter x games invites

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Atlanta Falcons. What can we expect from WNBA free agency? Seattle Storm. New youth movement: Ja Morant fan stare-down prompts Grizzlies to launch jersey swap for kids. I will be finished with adding all the non-X Aspen shots to my Flickr album so check it, along with my Youtube clips.

Now onto my picks for the best moments! All eyes were on Gus Kenworthy, who achieved a personal best and led a good portion of the finals.

One last skier remained, Kevin Rolland, and he threw down a stellar run worthy of first. Kevin himself seemed surprised, and to cap things off, his coach ran all the way down the massive halfpipe to congratulate him.

Pure nuttiness is what it was. Just click here and see you for yourself. By Brent Lewis. From The Denver Post The athletes often appear fearless and capable of everything. Although I was planning to get the book, listening to him talk about it made me want to read it even more.

By providing information on spins and height, fans get a little more insight into how scoring works and friends who happen to be on the couch with us can get a little more snowboarding Greatest Comeback — Maddie Bowman Ski After spending the off season in surgery, Maddie Bowman had only been in the pipe for a month before she grabbed her fourth X Games gold.

Moreover, she became the first woman to throw down a switch , a trick she only learned two days ago. Most Inspirational — Gus Kenworthy Ski To all the critics who wondered why Gus Kenworthy needed to come out, his silver medals in Slopestyle and Superpipe are proof that it is important.

He also took the time to interact with fans after Slopestyle and on-line. From First Tracks!! Her victory by 0. Congratulations again to all the winners! As with my experience in Austin, I have even more respect for what these athletes do. Hey, this bench looks familiar. I wanna take time to plug the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, one of the places I visited during my extended stay.

What they do is really cool, and we have to remember that we have to protect the mountains. Sunday had non-stop snow again. Saturday in Aspen was when the weather started to go south. However, the slick conditions combined with overcast skies proved to be very tricky.

After slopestyle, my parents and I went back to town. I had read in the paper that Colten Moore was doing reading and signing of his new book, Catching the Sky , at Explore Booksellers and wanted to see him. Ironically, he did an event in Dallas in February too, but Aspen was way more convenient for me. His friend manager? I got him to sign my Texas flag and a copy of Catching the Sky. In any case, Friday was the most jam-packed day so I hope to be back to posting more regularly.

Being stuck in Aspen for a couple of days after the X Games was great… until I got back home. Therefore I arrived in Aspen with some trepidation but much excitement. Aspen Airport knew what was going on. It turns out that Aspen in the day felt like Dallas without the wind chill. The altitude proved to be a bigger issue.

That combined with my bad health and lack of sleep led to a headache that put me out of commission for most of Thursday. X Games Aspen has been quite the game changer — for both action sports and for me personally.

I decided to immerse myself in the social media experience and as a result, had the time of my life. It allows us to connect to fellow fans from all around the world, staff who can give us a behind-the-scenes peek, and even the athletes.

She had a natural flow, and she proved to be the toughest high school freshman, winning gold after chipping her tooth in a gnarly crash during practice. He never lost his cool, throwing down the top-qualifying run at the end of eliminations and edging out a high-flying Taku Hiraoka on his final run.

She is definitely here to stay. It was cool to see the progression and the emotions, and everybody was on edge over which country would rise to the top U. Picture Perfect Moment — Yiwei Zhang shoots for the crescent moon. From sfgate.

The spray of snow in the corner is the perfect embellishment, as it is reminiscent of smoke coming from a rocket. However, he got in as a last minute replacement and brought his A game.

Sure his victory might have resulted from some good fortune, but it was mostly skill and level head. He won the first Mono Skier X gold and still has the skill to dominate the races.

From redbull. However, I had a blast dedicating my weekend to the X Games. I wound up only getting four of my predictions for gold right, but I enjoyed the surprises.

Congratulations to all the winners and mad props to those who got back up after a hard slam to medal. I had another post to write, but with the X Games kicking off tomorrow, I wanted to make predictions for some of the events.

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