{"id":803365,"date":"2020-01-23T11:21:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=377756"},"modified":"2020-01-23T11:21:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:21:05","slug":"watch-at-high-noon-summit-slopestyle-snowboarders-highlight-x-games-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/watch-at-high-noon-summit-slopestyle-snowboarders-highlight-x-games-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: At high noon, Summit slopestyle snowboarders highlight X Games Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Corning of Silverthorne executes a trick down the tear-drop rail at Winter X Games Aspen at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen in January 2019.<\/strong>
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Editor\u2019s note: Scroll down to the bottom of this post to watch live broadcast coverage of Thursday\u2019s X Games Aspen action, including Chris Corning and Red Gerard in men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle at noon!<\/em><\/p>\n

ASPEN \u2013 This winter\u2019s X Games Aspen at Buttermilk Ski Area got off to a soft, snowy start Wednesday evening when Longmont native and Dillon resident Chase Blackwell qualified through in the final position to Thursday night\u2019s primetime men\u2019s snowboard superpipe final (8 p.m. MST, ESPN).<\/p>\n

For Blackwell, it was a dream come true at his first X Games years after he and his father made it a tradition to attend the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s primetime men\u2019s snowboard superpipe final, which is taking place with a new jam format this year<\/a>, is far from the only event going on at Buttermilk on Thursday\u2019s first big day of the X Games. And, at high noon, Summit County snowboarders Chris Corning and Red Gerard will compete in a talented and deep men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle elimination round.<\/p>\n

Corning and Gerard will look to make the cut to Saturday\u2019s snowboard slopestyle final (1:45 p.m. MST), from a 16-rider field that fetures one heavy-hitter after another. Names like Sebastien Toutant, Sven Thorgren, Max Parrot, Stale Sandbech and Darcy Sharpe litter the elimination round roster. Then there\u2019s talented young riders like Brock Crouch, Judd Henkes and Luke Winkelmann also competing.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, it\u2019s no guarantee Gerard and Corning make it out of qualifiers. The good news for the Olympic gold medalist Gerard and the multi-time reigning FIS World Cup season champion Corning is that they will drop in 13th and 15th respectively, meaning they\u2019ll have a good idea of what they need to execute on the Buttermilk slope course.<\/p>\n

Outside of the noon men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle elimination round serving as the main event today for Summit County fans, here\u2019s today\u2019s schedule:<\/p>\n

X Games Aspen 2020 Thursday schedule:<\/strong>
Noon-1:30 p.m.: Men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle elimination
1:30-2:15 p.m: Men\u2019s ski big air elimination
7-7:30 p.m.: Ski knuckle huck final
8-9 p.m.: Men\u2019s snowboard superpipe final
9-9:45 p.m.: Women\u2019s snowboard big air final<\/p>\n

X Games Aspen 2020 competition previews:<\/strong>
Men\u2019s snowboarding: Scotty James, Mark McMorris back for more<\/a>
Women\u2019s snowboarding: Without Chloe Kim, Maddie Mastro has chance to shine<\/a>
Men\u2019s skiing: Alex Ferreira goes for repeat gold<\/a>
Women\u2019s skiing: Kelly Sildaru returns for another attempt at the golden trifecta<\/a>
Aussie rider Scotty James goes for 10 straight wins as new format hits superpipe at X Games<\/a>
Wednesday X Games notes: Parrot rallies back from cancer, Gus talks Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n

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More X Games coverage<\/strong>
ESPN, snowboarders to honor Jake Burton Carpenter in first X Games since his death<\/a>
Jack Mitrani back for fourth year as X Games Aspen host<\/a>
Colorado artist Lisa Issenberg embraces opportunity to make X Games medals<\/a>
Dillon\u2019s Chase Blackwell realizes dream of competing at X Games<\/a><\/p>\n

The lead-up to X Games<\/strong>
Breckenridge resident Taylor Gold podiums at Laax Open superpipe final<\/a>
Watch: Red Gerard finishes as runner-up at Laax Open slopestyle competition<\/a>
Watch: Silverthorne\u2019s Chris Corning stomps quad-cork 1800 to win big air World Cup in Atlanta baseball stadium<\/a>
Red Gerard takes us behind the scenes of the journey to film \u2018Joy\u2019<\/a>
Scotty James bests Yuto Totsuka in weather-affected Copper Grand Prix superpipe final<\/a>
Americans Blunck, Wise tame powder-filled Copper pipe to go 1-2 in Grand Prix<\/a><\/p>\n

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via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Corning of Silverthorne executes a trick down the tear-drop rail at Winter X Games Aspen at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen in January 2019.Summit Daily file Editor\u2019s note: Scroll down to the bottom of this post to watch live broadcast coverage of Thursday\u2019s X Games Aspen action, including Chris Corning and Red Gerard in men\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 22:52:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}