Birk Ruud (18) took gold in the event Big Air in the X Games in the night. It is his second consecutive gold in the event, when the youngster took gold also on home turf in may of last year.
It was in the third and fourth attempt, with the tricks of double 1620 with tailgrab and switch triple 1620 Birk Ruud got the total poensummen on 89 points – enough to secure the win.
Birk Ruud have a full impact in the last two editions of the snowboard and friskiens most prestigious competition.
Fjorårsseieren came after what had been a tough winter. Ruud struggled with injuries, and was scrapped from the OLYMPIC squad, a decision he was disappointed and disagreed with. Therefore, tasted the gold, extra good at the time.
Since then, he has taken new steps, and put the sport’s most prestigious on place again, this time in Aspen.
Canadian Alex Beaulieu-Marcand took second place and James Wood from the united Kingdom ended in third place. Johanne Killi took also the silver medal in the discipline earlier this weekend.
Also the OLYMPIC gold medalist Øystein Bråten and Christian Nummedal participated in the competition, without that they managed to assert itself completely in the top. They also run the slopestyle final Sunday.
OL-hoped Birk Ruud (17) lost his cool: “I hope people understand it