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X-games invited athletes

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Elg
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Just saw this posted on facebook.

http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2011/news/story?page=2011-winter-x-games-15-athletes-ski

Skiing Slopestyle - Men
Athlete Name Country
Elias Ambuhl SUI
Bobby Brown USA
Sammy Carlson USA
Phil Casabon CAN
Russ Henshaw AUS
Andreas Hatveit NOR
Gus Kenworthy USA
TJ Schiller CAN
Alex Schlopy USA
Tom Wallisch USA
Jossi Wells NZL

Skiing Slopestyle - Women
Athlete Name Country
Ashley Battersby USA
Grete Eliassen NOR
Keri Herman USA
Anna Segal AUS
Kaya Turski CAN

Skiing Superpipe - Men
Athlete Name Country
Xavier Bertoni FRA
Justin Dorey CAN
Simon Dumont USA
AJ Kemppainen FIN
Peter Olenick USA
Tucker Perkins USA
Mike Riddle CAN
Kevin Rolland FRA
Taylor Seaton USA
Byron Wells NZL
Jossi Wells NZL
Walter Wood USA

Skiing Superpipe - Women
Athlete Name Country
Dania Assaly CAN
Sarah Burke CAN
Anais Caradeux FRA
Virginie Faivre SUI
Roz Groenewoud CAN
Jen Hudak USA
Mirjam Jaeger SUI
Brita Sigourney USA
Nov 17 2010 1:14PM
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GayWolf420
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No walker or martini?
Nov 17 2010 1:16PM
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Elg
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"Please note: The invited athlete list is constantly being updated and is subject to change."


What surprises me the most is that on the snowboarder list there are people listed under Snowboard Big Air, but there is no such list for the skiers? No Ski big air this year?
Nov 17 2010 1:18PM
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h_bar
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Not enough names to be the full list, I'm guessing Harlaut and Walker are in plus a few more.
Nov 17 2010 1:19PM
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paige.
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It seems like most of the guys who were injured last season and didn't get to compete are the ones missing from the list. Probably just didn't get the results needed and will be added later.

But why didn't Megan Gunning make it immediately? She qualified first in pipe last year and did well in plenty of comps.
Nov 17 2010 1:36PM
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dubaiski
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martini, walker, henrik?
Nov 17 2010 1:39PM
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dubaiski
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oh you just answered my question
Nov 17 2010 1:40PM
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LO_GO
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I might cry there isn't a ski big air! :(
Nov 17 2010 2:01PM
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EmperorKuzco
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stoked for schlopy
Nov 17 2010 2:10PM
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TijmenDal
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Just two months left waaa! Seriously, I can't believe it's 'almost' x-games time already. Last x-games feel like 3 months ago...
Nov 17 2010 2:32PM
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SNOWPARKCHlLE
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hentik is in!
what about lj strenio and martini?
Nov 17 2010 2:37PM
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I_liketobutter
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Elias Ambuhl
Bobby Brown
Russ Henshaw
TJ Schiller
Alex Schlopy

They're all pretty good at jumps, but i doubt anything other than a 270 on 270 off a box. maybe 450, so extreme. oh yeah, w/ a wedge landing looking like they are feared for their lives through the rail section.

everyone else on the list is pretty well rounded.
Nov 17 2010 2:43PM
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RileySnyderPhoto
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Megan is out for the season because she blew her knee in NZ this summer
Nov 17 2010 2:46PM
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eheath
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Hahah i lol'd, im pretty sure all of those guys are pretty good at rails, just because they aren't tom or phil and hit urban all season doesn't mean they aren't good at rails.
Nov 17 2010 2:46PM
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Mr_pretzel
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pk?
Nov 17 2010 2:51PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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hopefully.
Nov 17 2010 2:53PM
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quebecfreestyler
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 Saying Schlopy isn't good at rails is totally stupid.

All these guys can stomp slopestyle style rails with good slopestyle tricks.  It's hard to judges rails in a slopestyle course because you cannot compare a 450 on disaster to a switch up on the same rail. 
 
Nov 17 2010 2:55PM
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I_liketobutter
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yeah they're pretty good at rails, but watching them all do the same shit every single year that a lot of 16yo kids can do in their sleep is humorous and get boring. would it kill them to do a bs 270 on a dfd?

you never see kids who kill it at rails and are so so at jumps in the x-games, but thats because of x-games audience/market, comp scene in general, etc, etc. its been discussed a million times, oh well
Nov 17 2010 2:58PM
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MRoden
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yeaaaaa seaton
Nov 17 2010 3:40PM
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nellyyy
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congrats Walter! so stoked
Nov 17 2010 4:00PM
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eheath
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It could easily kill their run, 270 to a dfd isn't exactly easy and hard to be consistant with. Just because 16yo kids can do a harder/similar rail trick, doesn't mean they are consistant and the pro skiers you are comparing them to.
Nov 17 2010 4:02PM
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JustDidIt
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And lets be honest, most comps are still judged mainly by jumps. Doing big or unique rail tricks doesn't really have as much reward as it does risk of ruining a run.
Nov 17 2010 4:07PM
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eheath
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Exactly, i think that should be changed but i don't see it happening.
Nov 17 2010 4:09PM
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Virtika
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Congratulations Ashley, get er done!
Nov 17 2010 4:13PM
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JustDidIt
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Non-skiers don't understand how hard rail tricks are, but with jumps, it's easier to see the difficulty. It makes sense for the X-Games and other big comps to value what the casual audience, who is the main percentage watching, likes to see. It sucks for people who really want to see some crazy rail tricks from guys we don't see putting out a bunch of rail edits to see what they can do.
Nov 17 2010 4:13PM
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twigflipper
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I'm just sad that Colby James West is not on list for anything.... poor guy.

Nov 17 2010 4:24PM
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Shlogan
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there has to be coming off of last years exitment. it just wouldn't make sense not to have it
Nov 17 2010 4:28PM
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*TURBONERD*
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yeah, that would make no sense. ski big air was off the hook and snowboarding was pretty shitty- most people fell.
Nov 17 2010 4:30PM
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LIL-WAT
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Russ destroys rails.
Nov 17 2010 4:44PM
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Jpurd
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what about walker?
Nov 17 2010 4:47PM
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AWALLRUS.
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me too :D
Nov 17 2010 4:52PM
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I_liketobutter
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right, i understand that, its a bummer.

if a bs270 out of a dfd could kill a run, so could their dub__ or their rightside trick. but i understand that they wouldn't try it b/c as you just said, they just aren't scored the same. not to mention it seems as though its easier to land some sort of double safety grab than a bs270 out of a dfd...

not trying to start a fight over who's better at rails than who. i just find it boring that for the last few years more than half the guys do basically the same tricks on the rail section. meanwhile the stuff on jumps has progressed significantly each year.
Nov 17 2010 5:51PM
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.oz.
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Bobby Brown is a big air skier, not a slopestyle skier. he does sick tricks off of the jumps, but when it comes to rails he doesn't do shit. i'm looking for the x-games slopestyle to be more well rounded as far as rails is concerned. big air skiers have their event, give the slopestyle to someone that can truly master both rails and jumps in one run.
Nov 17 2010 6:11PM
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THUGwife
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go watch pretty good. you'll then understand alex schlopy murders rails
Nov 17 2010 7:53PM
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Caleb.E
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was thinking the same thing! were could he be?
Nov 17 2010 8:01PM
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BWalmer
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Or even this the Team America edit...his Blind Swap-Blind 2 could quite possibly my favorite trick in that entire edit.
Nov 17 2010 8:14PM
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I_liketobutter
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ok ok, my point is:

rail progression for the majority of the guys at X in last 4-5 years - nothing
jump progression at X in last 4-5 years - huge
Nov 17 2010 8:25PM
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Alp1ne
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Russ kills rails harder then anyone in comps he was doing lip 2 pretz 2 out on a round down bar at the new zealand open.
Nov 17 2010 8:28PM
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Timlife
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Injured last year and didn't ski comps. Hope he will get an invite later. Think he will surely be in big air if you see his latest results.
Nov 18 2010 6:17AM
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LOLO_FAVRE
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saying that bobby is not a slopestyle skier since he won a gold ans a silver medal at xgames last year make me think that you're joking!!!!
you know why slopestule riders don't need to be really good at rails cause in pretty much in all the slopestyle course it's always boxes with big jumps and not really street stuff so this is why all the riders are pretty at the same level cause this is not street rail but park boxes....
i remember back in the days at the x-games i think it was 2003, 2004 and 2005 where they just had rails in the slopestyle course no boxes just rails and even stairs set which was really sick
Nov 18 2010 6:36AM
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Beez
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sooo pumped
Nov 18 2010 7:16AM
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SmoKinSkier
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OOO hells yea they used to have a decent amount of quality ad tech rails. It definitely challenged the riders more which is why i think they have gotten away from that.

Am I imagining it or did they have a pretty beefy rainbow rail one year? Similar to the BBQ rail at keystone
Nov 18 2010 8:57AM
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TheHuggyBear
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^this. I see him winning a medal this year..im callin it
1. bobby brown (2 peat!)
2. Tommy walnutz
3. Alex scholpy
Nov 18 2010 9:44AM
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juanborlando
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competitions suck anyways. rails will never be as important as jumps in slopestyle, thats just the way it is. like said before, the majority of the skiers are too scared to try any real tricks on rails during their run because they arent as consistent. usually one of the rails is basically a jump anyways, whether its a cannon or disaster or something stupid
Nov 18 2010 9:56AM
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J..H
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WHAT ABOUT JAMIE CRANE-MAUZY?!?!
Nov 18 2010 10:18AM
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dolan.duk
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AJ Kemppainen FIN <3 Finnish will win.
Nov 18 2010 10:40AM
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Line0777
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The Stairzilla!!!! that thing was soo sick
Nov 18 2010 11:24AM
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SteveStepp
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Fuck man. They forgot my name AGAIN
Nov 18 2010 11:26AM
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danbrown
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Please note: The invited athlete list is constantly being updated and is subject to change.



theres still hope lol
Nov 18 2010 11:29AM
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AGOF
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i seriously doubt schlopy will beat sammy if he goes and i am guessing that russ places second or first with bobby
Nov 18 2010 12:18PM
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AGOF
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page 2!
Nov 18 2010 12:24PM
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