Jan
23
Travis Rice Wins Big Air Gold at X Games
Travis Rice takes X 13 Big Air crown with an awesome double back 1080
Travis Rice is enjoying some payback. Payback to Torstein Horgmo after losing to him last year at the X 12 Big Air. Payback to Mikkel Bang after losing to him last year at the Munich Air & Style. Or maybe just call it a good hearted comeback after Rice had a near-fatal encounter during Slopestyle practice. VIDEO
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He didn’t win the X-games as we know it, he won American Snowboarding Idol, where the three other contestants where foreigners. Of COURSE he won, he coulda straightaired that kicker with a method and still won.
As Todd Richards said:
“Torstien would need to cure aids and herpes to win plus do a 14.000.000 (rotation)”
I don’t see why everybody thinks Torstein should have won hands down if non-biased judges were deciding this. Sure a 1260 is amazing… but Rice did just a half rotation less than Tor and he added TWO backflips! Rice stomped his landing as well but he just had to revert at the last second to keep his balance.
@dana
you know nothing about snowboarding. and by that, i mean you don’t know anything about stomping tricks, the ability of each rider, etc.
first, t. rice didn’t stomp. nothing else to say about that. a revert doesn’t count. and if you do count it, you probably do some half ass spins yourself.
secondly, both torstein and t rice have been doing those tricks for quite a while now.. if you follow snowboarding, contests, and vids, you know that they have these tricks on lock. so obviously if you are judging by each rider’s ability, they did nothing new.. which was disappointing on both ends..
bottom line, i’m not baggin’ on t rice at all. i actually prefer watching him over torstein but in this situation, contest-wise, he didn’t deserve to win. what makes it really worth arguing over is the fact that he won by a landslide.. it was blatant..
and i don’t even know whre to start with halfpipe judging..