British freeskier James Woods failed to qualify for the final in this year’s X Games Ski Slopestyle in Aspen, Colorado. Last year woods took home a X Games bronze, was crowned World Champion and took sliver in the World Championships.
In his elimination run he scored 73.33 and 79.00 respectively – but in the highly competitive world of Ski Slopestyle this was not enough to get him through to the final. He was ranked 10th.
The X Games, which took place just two weeks before the Winter Olympics, has seen some impressive riding. In the Men’s Ski Slopestyle event Gus Kenworthy landed the first Triple Rodeo of the competition (three backflips with a 180 spins).With the bar set high, American Nick Goepper also landed a Triple Rodeo securing him the gold medal.
Silver went to McRae Williams (USA) and Norwegian Andreas Hatveit took home the Bronze. Fourth Place went to Henrik Harlaut of Sweden who won gold in the GoPro Ski Big Air.
After his run Woods Took to twitter saying, “Well that is a very disappointing X Games. Threw down two of the best runs I’ve ever done and get a top score of 79?! Really Confused and gutted!”
British snowboarder, Billy Morgan, who was the first to ever land a triple rodeo, failed to qualify for the final – coming ninth in the elimination round. Only the top eight make it through. He threw in a triple in the qualifying but with the standard so high it was not enough.
After his run Morgan said on twitter “Cleaned my first run with a revert on the triple. Soo bumed. I rode the bubble down to 9th. Hopefully they’ll have me back next year!!!”
The gold was taken by Canadian Max Parrot, who also took home the gold for the Snowboarding Big Air. In the slopestyle Parrot narrowly beat countryman and X games gold medalist Mark McMorris. who led after the second of three runs but crashed hard in the rail section in his third run and fractured his rib. Bronze went to Stale Sandbech of Norway.
Both Morgan and Woods have been selected for Team GB for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia which begins 7th February.
