{"id":2455185,"date":"2020-02-28T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/jamie-anderson-wins-womens-slopestyle-finals-at-burton-us-open-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-02-28T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:40:00","slug":"jamie-anderson-wins-womens-slopestyle-finals-at-burton-us-open-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/jamie-anderson-wins-womens-slopestyle-finals-at-burton-us-open-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Anderson wins women\u2019s slopestyle finals at Burton US Open 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson gets a hug during the women’s slopestyle final of the Burton US Open on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, in Vail.<\/strong>
Burton US Open\/courtesy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

VAIL \u2014 The most classic 1-2 combination in women\u2019s slopestyle snowboarding, Jamie Anderson and Anna Gasser, topped the podium Friday at the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships in Vail.<\/p>\n

Anderson, 29, said in a sport where podium competitors are getting younger, she was happy to see a couple of veteran competitors make a statement Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hold each other up because we\u2019re a couple of 90\u2019s kids, everybody else was born in the 2000s and up,\u201d Anderson said of Gasser and their competition these days.<\/p>\n

Anderson, who was born in 1990, started competing at the Burton US Open 13 years ago. Defending champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott was 6 years old at the time, and Anna Gasser was a teenager just learning to snowboard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started, Jamie was already winning,\u201d Gasser said Friday. \u201cI always looked up to Jamie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gasser\u2019s learning curve looked a bit like the quarterpipe-style transition features the competitors were hitting on Friday. Within a few years, she was herself a top-tier competitor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI, obviously, so admire Anna and how far she has come,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n

Anderson and Gasser also shared a podium at the Burton US Open five years ago. Since then, they have pushed the progression of women\u2019s slopestyle snowboarding into the realm of double flips, double corks and all other varieties of tricks that involved getting inverted twice.<\/p>\n

Then, Gasser and Anderson started doing those double inverts in the switch stance. Gasser landed the first-ever women\u2019s cab doublecork 1080 in a big competition at the 2018 Olympics, taking off and landing switch on the final jump. After locking in her victory Friday, Anderson tried a cab doublecork 1080 in her final \u201cvictory lap\u201d run, but couldn\u2019t ride away clean.<\/p>\n

When asked why she would attempt such a difficult trick after she has already locked in the victory, Anderson said she did it for the cameras.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how many great video angles there are, and I really wanted to get that cab 10,\u201d she said with a laugh. \u201cFor me, I thought it would show good strength to ride through strong at the end, with the run that I wanted to do for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t quite land the cab double 10, so Gasser can still claim exclusivity on that trick in competition. Gasser also is the only woman who has landed a triple flip, but after trying it several times at X Games Aspen in January and taking some hard falls, she decided not to try it again in Vail this week.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to catch Anderson Friday, Gasser, on her final run, took a hard fall attempting a double cork 900. She said she knocked the wind out of herself, but other than that, she was OK.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy poor mom, she\u2019s been watching three major events where I took hard crashes,\u201d Gasser said. \u201cBut today looked worse than it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

jlaconte@vaildaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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