{"id":803452,"date":"2020-01-25T08:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/x-games-ski-big-air-henrik-harlaut-wins-12th-x-games-ski-medal-rising-french-star-tess-ledeux-gets-first-gold\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:56:02","slug":"x-games-ski-big-air-henrik-harlaut-wins-12th-x-games-ski-medal-rising-french-star-tess-ledeux-gets-first-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/x-games-ski-big-air-henrik-harlaut-wins-12th-x-games-ski-medal-rising-french-star-tess-ledeux-gets-first-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"X Games ski big air: Henrik Harlaut wins 12th X Games ski medal; rising French star Tess Ledeux gets first gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.459940652819\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-377958-69\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xskibigair-atd-012520-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xskibigair-atd-012520-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner \/ The Aspen Times | X Games skier Henrik Harlaut competes in the men\u2019s ski big air event on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Harlaut took home the gold.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>X Games skier Henrik Harlaut competes in the men\u2019s ski big air event on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Harlaut took home the gold.<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner \/ The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xskibigair-atd-012520-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"X Games skier Henrik Harlaut competes in the men\u2019s ski big air event on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Harlaut took home the gold.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xskibigair-atd-012520-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xskibigair-atd-012520-1-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Dale Pistole \/ Special to the The Aspen Times | Tess Ledeux competes in the women\u2019s ski big air event on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Ledeux took home the gold.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Tess Ledeux competes in the women\u2019s ski big air event on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Ledeux took home the gold.<\/strong><br \/>Dale Pistole \/ Special to the The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xskibigair-atd-012520-1-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Tess Ledeux competes in the women\u2019s ski big air event on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Ledeux took home the gold.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/x-games-ski-big-air-henrik-harlaut-wins-12th-x-games-ski-medal-rising-french-star-tess-ledeux-gets-first-gold\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/x-games-ski-big-air-henrik-harlaut-wins-12th-x-games-ski-medal-rising-french-star-tess-ledeux-gets-first-gold\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">At the end of the men\u2019s ski big air final Friday night, the fans at Buttermilk Ski Area waited eagerly to see if defending champion Birk Ruud had done enough on the final jump of the night to beat Henrik Harlaut. After Ruud landed a forward triple-cork 1800, the X Games announcers said: \u201cLook at this?\u201d The crowd, on the tips of their ski boots, responded, in unison: \u201clook at what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Moments later, it flashed on the big screen that Harlaut was the champion, followed by the Norwegian Ruud with the silver medal and Swiss skier Andri Ragettli with bronze. At the sight of the win, which gave the popular Swedish superstar Harlaut a record 12th X Games ski medal, the 28-year-old veteran threw his skis, poles and gear to the snow in celebration. Once he was corralled by X Games reporter Jon \u201cDC\u201d Oetken of Breckenridge, Harlaut summed up another magical night in his transcendent career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cFor sure the best jumping I\u2019ve ever done in my whole life,\u201d Harlaut said, \u201cand I did two or three jumps that I\u2019ve never done before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A few minutes later, Harlaut elaborated on what made his night so special. In typical Harlaut fashion, the Swede said the \u201cphattest\u201d trick of the night was his switch dub bio 1620. The trick required him to execute two bio flips, a difficult forward-leaning cork that looks super stylish, landing backward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI thought about it for a while,\u201d Harlaut said of the trick, \u201cand I did the first two switch 16(20)s eleven years ago. And I haven\u2019t done one since or tried one since. Just pulled it out when it counted. Tweaked it a little bit, added a little bit of sausage flavor to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">During his moment in the spotlight, Harlaut deferred credit to the ski legend who inspired him, Tanner Hall, when asked about surpassing the legend Hall\u2019s record. But, make no mistake, Harlaut added the latest chapter to his own legendary story Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cTanner is the greatest of all time,\u201d Harlaut said. \u201cHe\u2019s for sure the best. I don\u2019t know if it really counts, because we have more chances to get medals. Tanner would dominate back to back to back. Shout out to ski boss. Thank you for the inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the women\u2019s ski big air final, hosted two hours earlier, Tess Ledeux rode a pair of 1260-degree rotations to her first X Games gold medal. A year after the 18-year-old rising French star won bronze on the X Games big air jump, Ledeux had a repeat championship performance from her gold-medal performance at last winter\u2019s big air competition at the FIS World Championships in Park City, Utah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">About 3 minutes into the Friday night\u2019s 25-minute jam format, Ledeux put the competition on notice early with a double-cork 1260 with a mute grab, landing the trick switch, or backward, to impress the judges. Then at 16:50 left in the jam, Ledeux, in third place, dropped in switch and very cleanly landed backward a switch 1080, which helped push her to the top spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">At about the halfway point of the competition, with 11:50 remaining, Ledeux continued to show off her switch skills, landing another 1080 backward, this time rotating over her right shoulder. Five minutes later, Ledeux sewed up the competition by landing a switch leftside 1260, swiftly getting around the final 180 degrees on a trick she\u2019d never landed before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the end, Ledeux held on as Estonian teen star Kelly Sildaru dropped in and landed a switch 1260 with 12 seconds left in the competition. Then, with time expired, last year\u2019s big air winner Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland landed a rightside 1080 but it was not enough to bump her from second to above Ledeux. Her attempt prior, Gremaud landed a double-cork 1260 with two grabs \u2014 a safety grab and a tail grab \u2014 to get in that silver medal position. The 2018 big air gold medalist, Sarah Hoefflin of Switzerland, took the bronze medal while Sildaru finished fourth and American Maggie Voisin finished fifth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI think it\u2019s my dub 12 and my switch 12, for sure,\u201d Ledeux said of what she thought led her to victory. \u201cIt\u2019s my first time to land my switch 12, just amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/x-games-ski-big-air-henrik-harlaut-wins-12th-x-games-ski-medal-rising-french-star-tess-ledeux-gets-first-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X Games skier Henrik Harlaut competes in the men\u2019s ski big air event on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Harlaut took home the gold.Kelsey Brunner \/ The Aspen Times Tess Ledeux competes in the women\u2019s ski big air event on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. 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