Winter X Games Europe Tignes

Do you like extreme sports?

Winter X Games took place last month, from the 10th to the 12th of March at Tignes in France. It was the first time this event took place in Europe.
More than 66,200 spectators in 3 days, 150 skiers and snowboarders from all over the world, around 875 televising hours, more than 41 hours of radio, 400 press articles and nearly 550,000 web publications…
The total budget devoted to this event reached 8 million euros including 2 million provided by the town of Tignes.

Without a doubt, the first edition of Winter X Games Europe was a real success!

For the first time, Winter X Games, the must-see event in the ski freestyle world, took place outside of the United States. Indeed, Tignes was chosen by the organizers ESPN and CANAL+ EVENTS to welcome this great sporting event and give it its experience concerning the international events sliding organization.
For the first edition, Winter X Games Europe included 8 events over 3 days including the SuperPipe Ski and Snowboard, the SlopeStyle men and women as a demonstration of Snowmobile.

Here are the results and the medals obtained:

SuperPipe Men (Snowboard)

1- Louri Podladtchikov (SWI)
2- Mathieu Crepel (FRA)
3- Louie Vito (USA)

SuperPipe Men (Ski)

1- Kevin Rolland (FRA)
2- Xavier Bertoni (FRA)
3- Justin Dorey (CAN)

SuperPipe Women (Snowboard)

1- Kaitlyn Farrington (USA)
2- Torah Bright (AUS)

3- Sophie Rodriguez (FRA)

SuperPipe Women (Ski)

1- Jen Hudak (USA)
2- Roz Groenewoud (CAN)
3- Anais Caradeux (FRA)


Slopestyle Men (Snowboard)

1- Eric Willett (USA)
2- Sage Kotsenburg (USA)
3- Marko Grilc (SLO)

Slopestyle Men (Ski)

1- Tom Wallisch (USA)
2- Bobby Brown (USA)
3- Jossi Wells (NZL)

Slopestyle Women (Snowboard)

1- Jenny Jones (GBR)
2- Kjersti Oestgaard Buaas (NOR)
3- Sina Candrian (SWI)

Slopestyle Women (Ski)

1- Kaya Turski (CAN)
2- Keri Herman (USA)
3- Ashley Battersby (USA)

Here is a short video from you tube which illustrate well the concept of "X Games": Enjoy it !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3dcG5pocK8

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