{"id":803469,"date":"2020-01-26T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/knuckle-huck-champ-and-x-games-rookie-colby-stevenson-wins-ski-slopestyle-gold\/"},"modified":"2020-01-26T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:12:00","slug":"knuckle-huck-champ-and-x-games-rookie-colby-stevenson-wins-ski-slopestyle-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/knuckle-huck-champ-and-x-games-rookie-colby-stevenson-wins-ski-slopestyle-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Knuckle huck champ and X Games rookie Colby Stevenson wins ski slopestyle gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.0471204188482\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-378050-682\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xrail-atd-012620-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xrail-atd-012620-2-1024x768.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen TImes | X Games gold medalist Colby Stevenson, right, gets congratulated by fans and media after the men\u2019s ski slopestyle final on Saturday.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>X Games gold medalist Colby Stevenson, right, gets congratulated by fans and media after the men\u2019s ski slopestyle final on Saturday.<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/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\/xrail-atd-012620-2-1024x768.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"X Games gold medalist Colby Stevenson, right, gets congratulated by fans and media after the men\u2019s ski slopestyle final on Saturday.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/knuckle-huck-champ-and-x-games-rookie-colby-stevenson-wins-ski-slopestyle-gold\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/knuckle-huck-champ-and-x-games-rookie-colby-stevenson-wins-ski-slopestyle-gold\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">ASPEN \u2013 Colby Stevenson was mortal when he woke up this morning. He and fellow X Games Aspen competitor Evan McEachran opted for public transportation after Stevenson gave his Buttermilk parking pass to his mother, but after Saturday\u2019s men\u2019s ski slopestyle competition, maybe ESPN will give him a couple more passes next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">That\u2019s because the 22-year-old from Park City, Utah, is officially a superstar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">\u201cIt\u2019s funny, Evan and I, we started the day out at the economy lot in Snowmass and rode the bus in, just him and I. We are like, \u2018We must be the only athletes parking out here,\u2019\u201d Stevenson said. \u201cSo for us to go back and forth the whole competition \u2014 that was pretty cool. We are really good buddies. We\u2019ve been hanging out all week. It\u2019s unreal. We are both on top of the podium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">It was Stevenson, an X Games rookie, who narrowly bested McEachran, a 22-year-old X Games veteran from Canada, in Saturday\u2019s competition. Switzerland\u2019s Fabian Boesch, a two-time big air medalist, won bronze for his first slopestyle medal at X Games. The new competition format was a 45-minute jam session where athletes were ranked on overall impression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">Stevenson announced himself to the world on Thursday when he won the inaugural ski knuckle huck contest, edging fan favorite Henrik Harlaut, who won big air gold on Friday but did not qualify for Saturday\u2019s slopestyle final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">\u201cIt\u2019s insane. Colby may be a rookie to X Games this year, but to all of us skiers he\u2019s been the greatest skier in the world for the past couple of years,\u201d McEachran said. \u201cHe\u2019s the most talented, hard-working guy. Nobody deserves it more than him. He\u2019s been through a lot and to see him put it down today, it\u2019s just amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">Stevenson said he wasn\u2019t nervous coming in. Fellow Park City skier Alex Hall, who won his first slopestyle gold last year, told him X Games wasn\u2019t quite as intense as it was shown to be on television. Plus, winning knuckle huck on Thursday took some of that edge off, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">\u201cI really wanted to win knuckle huck, so to do that boosted my confidence for sure. It got me really excited for slopestyle,\u201d Stevenson said. \u201cI was feeling less pressure just because I had nothing to lose. I\u2019m here to prove myself and prove why I should have been invited years ago. I just was excited. I wanted to show people what I could do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">It also was the first X Games medal for McEachran, who was eighth in Friday\u2019s big air final. His best previous slopestyle finish had been eighth in 2017 in both Aspen and Norway. He was 11th in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">Finishing fourth in slopestyle Saturday was Switzerland\u2019s Andre Ragettli and fifth Canada\u2019s Alex Beaulieu-Marchand. Hall was sixth in defense of his 2019 gold, while Indiana\u2019s Nick Goepper was seventh and Norway\u2019s Ferdinand Dahl was eighth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NormalParagraphStyle\">\u201cI\u2019ve been to Aspen probably five times now, and it\u2019s gotten away from me every time,\u201d McEachran said of his first X Games medal. \u201cSo to put it down in the new format today and ski consistent like I did, I\u2019m blown away. I blew my mind today. I\u2019m very happy to see Colby Stevenson, one of my best friends, end up on top. I could not be happier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><em>This story is from AspenTimes.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/knuckle-huck-champ-and-x-games-rookie-colby-stevenson-wins-ski-slopestyle-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X Games gold medalist Colby Stevenson, right, gets congratulated by fans and media after the men\u2019s ski slopestyle final on Saturday.Austin Colbert\/The Aspen TImes Show CaptionsHide Captions ASPEN \u2013 Colby Stevenson was mortal when he woke up this morning. 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