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Are you kidding? The man does 12 chemo treatments in six months, is only two months removed from his final treatment in late August, spends just a week on snow and then beats the best in the world at XG Norway? Beautiful. Norway 2019 gold was Max Parrot’s 5th title in Snowboard Big Air. No other man or woman has more than 3. He has the most Snowboard Big Air medals in X Games history (8). His 5 gold and 8 medals are both tied with skier Henrik Harlaut for most in either X Games Ski or SBD. Max now has 6 total X Games gold and 10 medals overall. Just a reminder: THE MAN SPENT THE YEAR FIGHTING CANCER. This is the best story of 2019, and Brando and Craig’s call on Max’s final run was great. SUBSCRIBE ► http://xgam.es/YouTube X Games has been spreading the shred in action sports since 1995. For more coverage and highlights visit our official homepage at http://xgames.com --------- Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xgames Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/XGames Instagram ► https://instagram.com/xgames --------- Thanks for watching X Games! #XGames #MaxParrot #BestOf2019 ]]> Sat 28 Dec 2019 03:14:38 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/12388/max-parrot-1-x-games-2019-top-10-moments/ https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/12312/david-rinaldo-3-x-games-2019-top-10-moments/
Another world’s first! No one ever had landed a backflip body varial until the unheralded Frenchman did it in Run 1 of Moto X Best Trick. He earned gold. Of course. Had anyone even attempted a backflip body varial to dirt before Minneapolis? Rinaldo hadn’t; he’d only practiced it to a foam pit and airbag, and he broke his right ankle trying the trick into an airbag barely 6 weeks before X Games. He didn’t start riding again until July 20th, two weeks before he made history. Rinaldo wasn’t considered a favorite before XG Minneapolis. He never had competed in X Games Best Trick prior to MPLS 2019. In fact, he’d only attended X Games twice, with a best finish of 5th in Freestyle at X Games Foz do Iguacu 2013. The trick: Rinaldo performs a California Roll body varial mid backflip, meaning he spins 360 degrees off the bike while upside down. Insane. It’s the first single backflip variation to win X Games MTX Best Trick since Jeremy Stenberg in 2005. SUBSCRIBE ► http://xgam.es/YouTube X Games has been spreading the shred in action sports since 1995. For more coverage and highlights visit our official homepage at http://xgames.com --------- Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xgames Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/XGames Instagram ► https://instagram.com/xgames --------- Thanks for watching X Games! #XGames #DavidRinaldo #BestOf2019 ]]> Sat 28 Dec 2019 03:05:23 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/12312/david-rinaldo-3-x-games-2019-top-10-moments/ https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/12288/kelly-sildaru-4-x-games-2019-top-10-moments/
Just 16 at X Games Aspen 2019, Kelly Sildaru earned three Ski medals: Gold in Slopestyle, silver in SuperPipe, bronze in Big Air. She did it all in the span of about 26 hours. In the process, the Estonian teen set multiple marks. She became the first athlete, man or woman, to collect three Ski medals at the same X Games. The three medals gave Kelly 7 X Games medals total -- that’s the most of any athlete in history age 16 or under, breaking the record Chloe Kim and Tom Schaar shared. The 99 she achieved in Slopestyle is the highest score ever awarded in X Games Slopestyle, Ski or SBD. Kelly is only the second woman to earn three medals at the same X Games. The first was snowboarder Jennie Waara, way back at the first X Games winter event in 1997…five years before Sildaru was born. SUBSCRIBE ► http://xgam.es/YouTube X Games has been spreading the shred in action sports since 1995. For more coverage and highlights visit our official homepage at http://xgames.com --------- Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xgames Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/XGames Instagram ► https://instagram.com/xgames --------- Thanks for watching X Games! #XGames #KellySildaru #BestOf2019 ]]> Sat 28 Dec 2019 02:59:28 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/12288/kelly-sildaru-4-x-games-2019-top-10-moments/ https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/12257/mark-mcmorris-5-x-games-2019-top-10-moments/
In a fantastic comp that featured six scores of 90 or above, perhaps the best competitive slopestyle athlete ever saved his best for last. Mark McMorris sat in 2nd after Run 1 with a strong 89.66. By the time he dropped in for his last run -- the very last run of the entire contest -- he was down in 5th. But McMo loves pressure and is a contest killer, and he laid down an incredible pass that scored a 96, edging the surprising Rene Rinnekangas (who knew he was beat but was just so stoked to be there) for the dramatic walk-off win. The entire run was great, but if we don’t have time to show it then focus on the jump line: switch backside 1260 stalefish, frontside triple cork 1440 mute, backside triple cork 1620 mute. Can’t beat the call, either, featuring analyst Craig McMorris shouting, “Touchdown, Saskatchewan!” Slopestyle gold was Mark’s 5th in the discipline, tying Shaun White’s decade-old X Games mark. McMorris now has 10 Slopestyle medals total, most in history. His 17 X Games medals overall equals Joe Parsons for second-most XG winter discipline podiums, one behind White. SUBSCRIBE ► http://xgam.es/YouTube X Games has been spreading the shred in action sports since 1995. For more coverage and highlights visit our official homepage at http://xgames.com --------- Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xgames Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/XGames Instagram ► https://instagram.com/xgames --------- Thanks for watching X Games! #XGames #MarkMcMorris #BestOf2019 ]]> Sat 28 Dec 2019 02:53:46 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/12257/mark-mcmorris-5-x-games-2019-top-10-moments/ https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/12205/tess-ledeux-9-x-games-2019-top-10-moments/
Tess Ledeux’s leftside double cork 1260 scored a 48 and came in Run 1. That was the highest single score of any man or woman in Ski or Snowboard at Norway 2019. Combined with her second score, Tess took gold by a large margin of 8 points. X Games analyst Tom Wallisch and others called it probably the best trick ever thrown by a woman skier. That it came on a scaffolding setup is even more impressive, especially considering that Norway’s unique scaff unsettled many competitors, men included. It’s Tess’ first X Games gold and 4th medal overall. Just 17 at the time of her Norway victory, Tess is one of several young rippers pushing the progression and innovation in skiing; she previously had made history by landing the first double cork 1080 in a women’s slopestyle comp, doing it at X Games Aspen 2018. SUBSCRIBE ► http://xgam.es/YouTube X Games has been spreading the shred in action sports since 1995. For more coverage and highlights visit our official homepage at http://xgames.com --------- Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xgames Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/XGames Instagram ► https://instagram.com/xgames --------- Thanks for watching X Games! #XGames #TessLedeux #BestOf2019 ]]> Sat 28 Dec 2019 02:47:22 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/12205/tess-ledeux-9-x-games-2019-top-10-moments/