Nike ACG Team Blog : News from the snowbard team

well here is the last installment of a very successful x-games...ANDREAS WON GOLD..hell yeah. After falling on his first run and dealing with massive nerves he pulled himself together and nailed his second run to take the title, RUDE.

As you can see from the results, Thomas got 9th in the final after sticking his second run clean when his ski came off after sticking the first landing. This was a great performance for his first x-games at 18 years old and hopefully he can continue like this.

The results                       happy andreas with medal     super stoked andreas           Thomas doing his blue steel

Gary had a tough time in the pipe final with tough snow conditions and took home a 9th place, he is focused on getting that podium next year and it will be the X-Games 13 and 13 is his lucky number so it should be all good.

We left aspen yesterday and have now arrived after a nightmare drive in a snow storm at Copper Mountain where we will be all week for the US Open. the forecast is super bad but hopefully the organisers will be able to keep the comp running to schedule. Paddy has his quali in the morning so fingers crossed, I have told him to take out his powder skis and get some nice turns down the landing.

 cheers

G