{"id":803377,"date":"2020-01-23T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/x-games-aspen-2020-preview-alex-ferreira-goes-for-repeat-gold-in-mens-halfpipe-skiing\/"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:24:00","slug":"x-games-aspen-2020-preview-alex-ferreira-goes-for-repeat-gold-in-mens-halfpipe-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/x-games-aspen-2020-preview-alex-ferreira-goes-for-repeat-gold-in-mens-halfpipe-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"X Games Aspen 2020 preview: Alex Ferreira goes for repeat gold in men\u2019s halfpipe skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you\u2019re looking for an Aspen local to watch this week at X Games, it\u2019ll be in halfpipe skiing. Yeah, we\u2019re talking about Alex Ferreira, who is back to defend his crown in the superpipe. But before we get to Sunday\u2019s finale, there are some intense competitions set to go down in big air and slopestyle. Here\u2019s what to look for in the men\u2019s skiing competitions at X Games Aspen 2020:<\/p>\n

Big Air<\/p>\n

Finals: Friday, 8:35 p.m.<\/p>\n

2019 podium: Birk Ruud (gold), Alex Beaulieu-Marchand (silver), James Woods (bronze)<\/p>\n

Norway\u2019s Birk Ruud only has two X Games medals, but they are both golden. He won last year in Aspen and also won Norway\u2019s big air competition in 2018 in his native land. Only 19, he\u2019s certainly becoming a major player in the discipline and should be among the frontrunners again this week in Aspen.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, who goes by ABM, is primed for a breakthrough. He won Aspen silver in both big air and slopestyle last winter and could very well get that first gold at Buttermilk on Friday.<\/p>\n

Of course, the main name to know is Sweden\u2019s Henrik Harlaut, who has six X Games gold medals (four in Aspen, two in Norway), five coming in big air. He\u2019s the best big air skier on the planet despite a disappointing sixth-place finish in Aspen last year. Don\u2019t be surprised to see him return to the top of the podium this week.<\/p>\n

Slopestyle<\/p>\n

Finals: Saturday, 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

2019 podium: Alex Hall (gold), Alex Beaulieu-Marchand (silver), Ferdinand Dahl (bronze)<\/p>\n

Utah\u2019s Alex Hall is coming off a monster season, winning slopestyle gold in Aspen last winter as well as big air gold in Norway. The 21-year-old from Park City will be a contender in both contests this week at Buttermilk.<\/p>\n

ABM is back trying to finish what he came so close to accomplishing last season, and Norway\u2019s Ferdinand Dahl looks to improve on last year\u2019s bronze, which remains his first and only X Games medal. It\u2019s a stacked competition that also includes mainstays such as Oystein Braaten, Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper, all proven athletes.<\/p>\n

Superpipe<\/p>\n

Finals: Sunday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

2019 podium: Alex Ferreira (gold), David Wise (silver), Nico Porteous (bronze)<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s X Games Aspen podium was the same as in the 2018 Winter Olympics, although this time it was Aspen\u2019s own Ferreira topping Nevada\u2019s David Wise. Ferreira\u2019s gold last winter made him the first X Games champion from Aspen since Gretchen Bleiler and Peter Olenick both won in 2010.<\/p>\n

So, can Ferreira repeat? It\u2019ll be tough, as Wise, a four-time X Games Aspen champ and two-time Olympic gold medalist always has something up his sleeve. Crested Butte\u2019s Aaron Blunck, the two-time reigning world champion who won X Games Aspen gold in 2017, shouldn\u2019t be counted out. New Zealand\u2019s Nico Porteous is only 18, but is a rising star with that Olympic bronze from two seasons ago.<\/p>\n

Aspen\u2019s Cassidy Jarrell remained an alternate for the event as of Tuesday night. And Summit County born-and-raised native Jaxin Hoerter of Breckenridge will drop into his first-ever X Games competition for the elimination round.<\/p>\n

acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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

If you\u2019re looking for an Aspen local to watch this week at X Games, it\u2019ll be in halfpipe skiing. Yeah, we\u2019re talking about Alex Ferreira, who is back to defend his crown in the superpipe. But before we get to Sunday\u2019s finale, there are some intense competitions set to go down in big air and […]<\/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-803377","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 22:51:38","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\/803377","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=803377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}