{"id":803453,"date":"2020-01-25T08:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/taylor-gold-wins-gold-in-inaugural-snowboard-superpipe-session-at-x-games\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:56:02","slug":"taylor-gold-wins-gold-in-inaugural-snowboard-superpipe-session-at-x-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/taylor-gold-wins-gold-in-inaugural-snowboard-superpipe-session-at-x-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Gold wins gold in inaugural snowboard superpipe session at X Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"5.7448275862069\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-377961-771\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xsnowboardpipe-atd-012420-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xsnowboardpipe-atd-012420-3-1024x726.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner \/ The Aspen Times | Taylor Gold competes the men\u2019s snowboard superpipe final on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Taylor Gold competes the men\u2019s snowboard superpipe final on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020.<\/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\/xsnowboardpipe-atd-012420-3-1024x726.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Taylor Gold competes the men\u2019s snowboard superpipe final on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/taylor-gold-wins-gold-in-inaugural-snowboard-superpipe-session-at-x-games\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/taylor-gold-wins-gold-in-inaugural-snowboard-superpipe-session-at-x-games\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">ASPEN \u2013 Simply put, Chase Josey didn\u2019t know what to do. Nobody really did. The men\u2019s snowboard superpipe session was a brand new event for X Games Aspen and figuring it out meant learning on the fly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe all came up here and were, \u2018Man, what\u2019s it going to be like?\u2019 We didn\u2019t know. We were experiencing it as it was happening,\u201d Idaho\u2019s Josey said. \u201cThe first run, I was just going to try and get a run under my belt, just kind of feel it out an watch what these other guys were doing. Then second and third run I tried to step it up from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The inaugural contest Friday night was a 20-minute jam session where eight riders tried to impress the judges, but through more stylish and limited tricks than your typical superpipe run. Steamboat\u2019s Taylor Gold took gold, followed by Eagle\u2019s Jake Pates with silver and California\u2019s Toby Miller with bronze. Josey was fourth, Yuto Totsuka fifth, Danny Davis sixth, Andre Hoflich seventh and Ryan Wachendorfer eighth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt was really fun watching everybody ride,\u201d Gold told X Games host Jack Mitrani after the contest. \u201cI honestly enjoyed it as much if not more than the actual contest (on Thursday), just because of all the creativity. Super different runs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The superpipe session was one of many new events and formats X Games is trying out this winter. On top of knuckle huck, which made its snowboard debut last year and ski debut this year, there will be a rail jam Sunday, using the rails on the slopestyle course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cTonight was just the opposite of that. Just fun, maybe more technical, stylish tricks,\u201d Josey said comparing the session to Thursday\u2019s more traditional superpipe final, won by Australia\u2019s Scotty James. James had originally planned to compete in Friday\u2019s session, but pulled out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s really cool how X Games is trying to mix it up a little bit, roll the dice and keep things fresh. I think the jam format worked really well pretty much for every discipline,\u201d Josey said. \u201cI see this happening in the future and I feel X Games is probably going to continue this format for the next little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\">This story is from AspenTimes.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/taylor-gold-wins-gold-in-inaugural-snowboard-superpipe-session-at-x-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Gold competes the men\u2019s snowboard superpipe final on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020.Kelsey Brunner \/ The Aspen Times Show CaptionsHide Captions ASPEN \u2013 Simply put, Chase Josey didn\u2019t know what to do. Nobody really did. The men\u2019s snowboard superpipe session was a brand new event for X Games Aspen and figuring it out meant learning [&hellip;]<\/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-803453","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 16:46:12","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\/803453","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=803453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}