Nike ACG Team Blog : News from the snowbard team

well last night was great, Gary got 9th in qualifying in the pipe so is through to the final tonight. Gary qualified with his super mellow and styly safety run which means he has saved the big tricks for tonight. Hopefully he will stick his back to back ten's and get the high amplitude which he is known for. A relatively unknown Japanese rider took first place in the qualifying in front of Shaun White, his run was so big and technical and he was way in front of the rest of the field, everyone is going to have to step it up if they are going to beat him.

David Spieser, our german boardercrosser, took third yesterday in a super tight final and he is still super stoked today so a big congratulations to him and a great second medal for Nike ACG, lets hope that Andreas can take a medal home tonight, gold is calling.

Yesterday was also the gilrs and guys snowboard slopestyle final and they were both great comps. Jamie Anderson took the girls title on her last run to pip claudia fliri for a european gold but it was a great effort for her first x-games. In the mens comp Andreas Wiig toook the title in front of Kevin Pearce. Shaun white had a shocker by his standards doing his first run with a broken board and landing it but the judges not feeling it deserved first place. He then didnt stomp his following runs perfectly and ended up in third place. He was a bit pissed off and went straight back up to the top of the course and did a 4th un-judged run and stuck it perfectly but unfortunately for him just too late. Another notable moment was Heikki Sorsa who was unstrapping his back foot after the second last jump and doing the last big booter with a one foot FS3 which he was stomping,....sick.

Will let y'all know later how the team get on today.

cheers

G