{"id":803471,"date":"2020-01-26T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/kelly-sildaru-wins-first-womens-ski-superpipe-gold-over-rachael-karker-cassie-sharpe\/"},"modified":"2020-01-26T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:04:00","slug":"sildaru-wins-first-x-games-ski-superpipe-gold-over-rachael-karker-cassie-sharpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/sildaru-wins-first-x-games-ski-superpipe-gold-over-rachael-karker-cassie-sharpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sildaru wins first X Games ski superpipe gold over Rachael Karker, Cassie Sharpe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.4434250764526\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-378047-151\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xskipipewomen-atd-012620-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xskipipewomen-atd-012620-1-1024x691.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | X Games skier Cassie Sharpe stands at the base of the superpipe after the women\u2019s ski final. Sharpe finished third overall.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>X Games skier Cassie Sharpe stands at the base of the superpipe after the women\u2019s ski final. Sharpe finished third overall.<\/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\/xskipipewomen-atd-012620-1-1024x691.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"X Games skier Cassie Sharpe stands at the base of the superpipe after the women\u2019s ski final. Sharpe finished third overall.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xskipipewomen-atd-012620-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/xskipipewomen-atd-012620-1-1-1024x684.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Nate Krause\/Special to The Aspen Times | X Games skier Cassie Sharpe competes in the women\u2019s ski superpipe finals. Sharpe finished third overall.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>X Games skier Cassie Sharpe competes in the women\u2019s ski superpipe finals. Sharpe finished third overall.<\/strong><br \/>Nate Krause\/Special to 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\/xskipipewomen-atd-012620-1-1-1024x684.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"X Games skier Cassie Sharpe competes in the women\u2019s ski superpipe finals. Sharpe finished third overall.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/kelly-sildaru-wins-first-womens-ski-superpipe-gold-over-rachael-karker-cassie-sharpe\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/kelly-sildaru-wins-first-womens-ski-superpipe-gold-over-rachael-karker-cassie-sharpe\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">ASPEN \u2013 Cassie Sharpe did everything in her power to win Saturday\u2019s superpipe contest. She had no regrets. Her only question is, what else could she have done? No one really has an answer with the new scoring format taking over X Games Aspen this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThat\u2019s the thing. The new format is fun. It pushes everyone. You get creativity, you get variation, you get all these things that are amazing with it,\u201d the Canadian star said. \u201cBut they don\u2019t have a solid way of saying you need to do this to win. It\u2019s kind of like you\u2019re blind. You just go in blind and you make it up as you go. I think this format is fun. I think we need to have a little bit more structure to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sharpe, the 27-year-old who won X Games Aspen gold in the superpipe contest last year, settled for bronze Saturday in her return from a three-month hiatus as she recovered from a concussion. The reigning Olympic gold medalist in the halfpipe put down two strong runs to close the 30-minute jam session but still fell short of silver medalist Rachael Karker and gold medalist Kelly Sildaru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The biggest change to this year\u2019s contest was in the scoring, which is based around an \u201coverall impression\u201d format instead of judging athletes on their best single run. Skiers move up and down the standings during the contest, but there are not any actual scores to compare or contrast runs with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cYou are totally guessing,\u201d Sharpe said. \u201cYou just cruise and try to mix it up a little bit, give them some variation, hit your grabs, get the amplitude and just do everything in your power to do well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Karker, the 22-year-old Canadian who won bronze as an X Games rookie a year ago, found joy in the relative free-flowing nature of the competition. She\u2019s come onto the scene quickly following a surprise win at Dew Tour last winter in Breckenridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cAs always, everyone is going in hoping for gold, but I\u2019m so happy I was able to land on the podium,\u201d Karker said. \u201cI was pretty nervous trying to put together different runs. We don\u2019t normally do that, but it ended up being super fun. I\u2019m pretty happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sildaru, the 17-year-old from Estonia who is taking over women\u2019s freeskiing, won X Games gold in only her second superpipe contest at Buttermilk. She won silver a year ago in her debut, although she now has a total of four X Games gold medals when combined with her three slopestyle golds going back to her first in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She was fourth in big air Friday and will look to defend her slopestyle gold Sunday. She won three X Games medals in the three events in roughly 24 hours last winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI didn\u2019t expect that today,\u201d Sildaru said. \u201cIt\u2019s also pretty tough doing all three disciplines. I just tried to enjoy tonight and that happened. So I\u2019m really stoked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">China\u2019s Kexin Zhang was fourth Saturday, followed by Britain\u2019s Zoe Atkin, California\u2019s Brita Sigourney, Russia\u2019s Valeriya Demidova and China\u2019s Fenghui Li.<\/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\/kelly-sildaru-wins-first-womens-ski-superpipe-gold-over-rachael-karker-cassie-sharpe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X Games skier Cassie Sharpe stands at the base of the superpipe after the women\u2019s ski final. Sharpe finished third overall.Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times X Games skier Cassie Sharpe competes in the women\u2019s ski superpipe finals. Sharpe finished third overall.Nate Krause\/Special to The Aspen Times Show CaptionsHide Captions ASPEN \u2013 Cassie Sharpe did everything in [&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-803471","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 15:48:38","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\/803471","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=803471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}