X games ski pipe 2013

All rights reserved. With the memory of the late and beloved Sarah Burke warming the frozen night, year-old Maddie Bowman one-upped her own silver-medal performance from last year to take gold in Women's Ski SuperPipe on Friday at X Games Aspen Bowman's winning run came early in the night, on her first of three attempts down Buttermilk Mountain's foot-deep pipe.

The South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Sarah would have wanted us to ski as hard as we did. Groenewoud ended up with the silver medal, while fellow Canadian, year-old Megan Gunning, finished with the bronze. I'm more spiritual now. Heading into her third and final run of the night, she was the last skier with a chance to beat Bowman.

With a "Sarah" sticker on her helmet, Groenewoud cleaned up her run out of the gate with some of the biggest airs over 14 feet out of the pipe and dialed rotations of the contest, but came up just shy, washing out the landing on her last hit.

I came out and landed it. It's just an honor to be out here doing what I love. It came eight years after he won his second of back-to-back gold medals in the same pipe, and he did so despite skiing without poles due to lingering effects from wrist surgery in December. He brought back memories from his glory days when he popped more than 19 feet out of the pipe on each of his first two hits Friday. Wise's win made it 11 straight years that either a U. All eight skiers in Friday's final were from those two nations, with the top French finisher being and champ Kevin Rolland, who finished fourth.

Rolland was followed by X Games Aspen rookie Joffrey Pollet-Villard, who posted the night's biggest air when he peaked at 23 feet, 2 inches on an alley-oop flatspin Japan.

Learn more. X Games Aspen Schedule Announcement. Dumont secured bronze in his second six-trick run with signature amplitude reaching almost 20 feet and earning As that was going on, the snowboard big air event was dominated by six riders delivering on the expected triple-backflip tricks in early and final heats.

Those who failed to nail the dangerous trick were punished in spectacular crashes. Halldor Helgason, a year-old from Iceland, landed on his face trying a triple. A hush settled over the venue as he slid — unmoving — down the landing. He was knocked unconscious but came around and was moving, even holding an oxygen mask to his face as medics loaded him onto a stretcher headed for the Aspen Valley Hospital.