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For winter sports, the term superpipe is used to describe a halfpipe built of snow which has walls 22 ft (6.7 m) high from the flat bottom on both sides. Other features of a superpipe are that the width of the pipe is greater than the height of the walls, and the walls extend to near vertical.
One current method of half-pipe cutting is by use of a Zaugg Pipe Monster, which uses five snow-cutting edges to create an elliptical shape that is purportedly safer and allows the rider to gain more speed. [7] In winter sports, a 6.7 m (22 ft) halfpipe is called a superpipe.
Half-pipe skiing is the sport of riding snow skis on a half-pipe. Competitors perform a series of tricks while going down the pipe. Competitors perform a series of tricks while going down the pipe. The current world record for highest jump in a half-pipe is held by Joffrey Pollet-Villard , with 26 feet 3 inches (8.00 metres). [ 1 ]
Skier Tanner Hall won his third consecutive men's superpipe gold medal and his seventh X Games gold medal over all, the most of any winter competitor. [2] This record stood alone until the final night of competition, when Shaun White tied it with a gold medal in the men's snowboard superpipe and set his own record with 12 career Winter X Games medals.
The X Games Aspen 2002 was the first time an X Games event was televised live and also had coverage by ESPN's flagship news program, SportsCenter. Viewership across the three networks that carried coverage of the event – ABC Sports, ESPN, and ESPN2 – exceeded 2001's household average by 30% according to Nielsen Media Research.
Needing to rock his final Olympic halfpipe run just to qualify, Aaron Blunck proceeded to pump up the volume. “If someone wants to mess with me on a competition day, they'd take away my music ...
Time Event Location 9:30 am – 10:30 am: Mono Skier X Qualifying: Aspen, CO 10:00 am – 11:30 am: Snowboard SuperPipe Women's Elimination: Aspen, CO 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Snowboard Snowboarder X Men's Final: Aspen, CO 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Snowboard Snowboarder X Women's Final: Aspen, CO 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Skiing Slopestyle Men's Final ...
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