Replying to steele and mercon got screwed in x
with 4 skier remaining (including tanner)in the second qualifying run, a friggin blizzard blew in. after a 20 minute hold, tanner tried running, but pulled up on the course and exchanged words with an official. at the bottom of the course he kicked his skis off and threw down his helmet and said 'its a joke! you can't see. its worthless, you can't get any speed' he'd already qualified for finals, so no one really cared.
the last two skiers, steele and mercon, who did not have solid first runs, were forced to ski their runs in blizzard conditions with 3-4 inches of fresh wind blown snow on the course and no visibility. neither qualified. they got screwed!
no one could ski a slopestyle course in those conditions and they should not have been forced to take their runs at that time. tanner threw a fit about it calling it unskiable, and you can bet if he hadn't yet qualified, they would have
postponed it. its so unfair - they basically took it away from them.
all other events on the mountain (moto x and boarder x) were postponed due to the weather. only slopestyle's two remaining competitors were forced to ski in it. something needs to be done about this. it was so unfair! maybe give each of those guys a wild card to next year's x!!!
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