Henricksen, 17, also won gold in the men's snowboard slopestyle and defeated a field that included Olympic champion Red Gerard. Another notable Olympic champion thrived, as Chloe Kim won the women's snowboard superpipe for her fifth snowboard halfpipe title in Aspen.
One of Kim's six and one of Clark's seven X Games halfpipe titles came in competition outside of Aspen. ChloeKim age 20, now has 8 XGames medals overall. She returned to competition this month after taking 21 months off to focus on her first year at Princeton University. Making Kim's performance all the more impressive is the fact that she took last year's event off because she was taking freshman classes at Princeton. Speaking of making history, Eileen Gu won the women's ski superpipe and the women's ski slopestyle while also taking home bronze in the women's ski big air.
There is plenty more where that came from, ranging from slopestyle skiing and snowboarding to the always-popular SuperPipe challenges. Incredibly, White went on to top that with a Ayumu Hirano is just 14 years old and weighs only 75 pounds, but he was not to be underestimated in his bid to take down the perennial champion White. The teen phenom posted a Levi LaVallee won his second gold of these games with an impressive gold medal run that left Cory Davis in the this dust.
Davis was expected to have the edge in the speed department, as he had the fastest time in qualifying, but he fell behind by the end of the first turn. This was bad news for Davis, as he had no shot of making up ground in the tricks department. The highly anticipated Slopestyle showdow between Shaun White and the events defending gold medalist, Mark McMorris, never really materialized.
Sarka Pancochova pulled off a thrilling run on her last attempt, and it was good enough to get Anderson worrying as they announced the score, but her 90 came up just short. Levi LaVallee walked away with the gold medal in the men's snowmobile freestyle on Thursday to kick off the medal events at the Winter X Games.
His second run catapulted him past the competition, scoring an Parsons finished with an Louis-Felix Paradis of Canada won the gold medal in the snowboard street competition on Friday, posting two runs scored Dylan Alito of Evergreen won the silver medal, posting two runs of Dylan Thompson came in third, registering two runs of Maddie Bowman, who won the silver medal in the superpipe at the Winter X Games last year, did one better this year, earning a gold medal with a run of Here, Dusty recounts his first Slopestyle experience for Xplained.
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