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WX15 invited athletes -- Skiing

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undercover_skier
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Skiing Slopestyle - MenAthlete NameCountryElias AmbuhlSUIBobby BrownUSASammy CarlsonUSAPhil CasabonCANIan CoscoCANAlexis GodboutCANHenrik HarlautSWERuss HenshawAUSJF HouleCANAndreas HatveitNORGus KenworthyUSAAlex SchlopyUSATom WallischUSAJossi WellsNZL

Skiing Slopestyle - WomenAthlete NameCountryAshley BattersbyUSAGrete EliassenNORKeri HermanUSAKim LamarreCANDevin LoganTBDMegan OlenickUSAAnna SegalAUSKaya TurskiCANJessica WarllTBD

Skiing Superpipe - MenAthlete NameCountryXavier BertoniFRAJustin DoreyCANSimon DumontUSAAJ KemppainenFINThomas KriefTBDPeter OlenickUSATucker PerkinsUSAMike RiddleCANKevin RollandFRATaylor SeatonUSAByron WellsNZLJossi WellsNZLDavid WiseUSAWalter WoodUSATorin Yater-WallaceTBD

Skiing Superpipe - WomenAthlete NameCountryDania AssalyCANSarah BurkeCANAnais CaradeuxFRAJess CummingsUSAVirginie FaivreSUIRoz GroenewoudCANJen HudakUSAMirjam JaegerSUIDevin LoganTBDBrita SigourneyUSA

Skiing Big Air - MenAthlete NameCountryElias AmbuhlSUIBobby BrownUSASammy CarlsonUSAAndreas HatveitNORHenrik HarlautTBDRuss HenshawAUSPer-Krisitan HunderNORBene MayrGERJacob WesterTBD

Jan 6 2011 2:30PM
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TheHuggyBear
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Are you guys fucking serious right now. Bobby is the best skier in the game, but can we lay off his dick for a second and take a look at the other people that are participating. Put it this way, if someone is invited to the Xgames they are considered THE BEST in the game hands down. And why are you overlooking such people as Taylor Seaton and Justin Dorey in the pipe....Sure Simon and Rolland are killing it, but from what ive seen of these two, they will place first in more than one competition this year. Now with Slopestyle, Bobby is definitely a front runner and so is wallisch, but what about Hatveit, dude has a fucking slopestyle course in his back yard and is always slaying the comps. I expect him to be on the podium without a doubt. Chug, Gus, Schlopy, and Godbout are honestly going to be some of my favorites to watch in Slopestyle mainly on the fact that they are looked over so much as one of the top skiers and yet they will slay in slopestyle and schock you. Big ari will be a dub fest..whoever stomps the biggest double will win..

WOMEN: Battersby, Cummings, Turski, Logan, Burke, and Warll are so dominate right now in the Womens game that they will put on a fantastic show in both pipe and slopestyle. I advise a lot of NS to watch the womens events just because they are better than 90 percent of us and are not throwing down as big as the guys. They are great to watch to learn next level tricks that are not double cork 16's.

Look at the whole comp and not how big people will throw down in big air and how many dubs bobby can throw in his slope run.
P.s. not a rant, just an eye opening
Jan 7 2011 12:16PM
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LittleFoot
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WHY THE FUCK IS MARGETTS NOT IN PIPE. fuckashit
Jan 7 2011 12:32PM
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Dan-Man
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changing of the guard has begun.
Jan 7 2011 12:37PM
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GGreene
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i am gonna go ahead and make a VERY bold prediction and say Torrin will win pipe, or at least place. that would be sweet
Jan 7 2011 12:43PM
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undercover_skier
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The list changes every day, here the link to see if any others are added :

Jan 7 2011 1:59PM
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*TURBONERD*
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Andreas' poor showing at the first Dew Tour stop says otherwise. I hope he can pull something out of his hat, though. I love him.
Jan 7 2011 5:43PM
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pghjibber
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i'd be shocked if he wasn't on the podium... kid is a machine right now and has bigger airs then anyone in the field (yes, bigger than YOU dumont)
Jan 7 2011 6:12PM
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will_powder
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yeah but a huge step down is more appealing for the general public.
Jan 7 2011 7:51PM
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danbrown
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i think it's pretty sick that devin logan is competing. the girl can ski
Jan 7 2011 8:12PM
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Karma_Police
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Tall tees don't mean style.

Also you're white.
Jan 7 2011 9:14PM
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RoadRash_Skier
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soory but bobby got no style, look at his run in X last year, 3 mute back to back to back, no diversity... it's really far of a stylish run.
Jan 7 2011 9:42PM
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theWIZARD
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i think he will win big air
Jan 7 2011 9:43PM
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GayWolf420
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A 100ft step down is just insane. The thought of it makes me terrified.
Jan 7 2011 10:12PM
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LIL-WAT
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No Jossi big air what!? i hope Henrik takes slope.
Jan 7 2011 11:09PM
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KillaSeason
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Im sorry, where did I say it was because of his clotheshe has style? Also, we ski, thats THE whitest thing to do so I know I am and I am proud.
Jan 7 2011 11:30PM
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SNEEZE
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good point, he had one of the smoothest styles in big air last year.
Jan 7 2011 11:40PM
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icon1234
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So jacob wester is in big air, but not wallsich????? Unless jacob won one of those pre season city big airs, why the hell is in it?
Jan 8 2011 2:59AM
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*TURBONERD*
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Grabs are not solely responsible for style, but if you want to argue that point, Bobby has one of the best dub 12 blunts in the game.
Jan 8 2011 7:20AM
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TheAtomicPunk
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I want Jacob to win big air.
Jan 8 2011 7:37AM
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Mr.LemonPie
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I wouldn't be surprised if PK comes out with something ridiculous, the guy can ski at an unbelievable level. If he doesn't do something no one has seen, then I say bobby takes big air with sw dub misty 12/14 and a triple.

I wouldn't be surprised if anyone on the list for slope won, it is gonna be close this year I think.
Jan 8 2011 8:30AM
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mattwalker
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this!
Jan 8 2011 12:20PM
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J_BISCHOF
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First off
Devin Logan for the motherfucking WIN.

Secondly, it is a very slim chance big air will be won with anything less than a 14 whether its dub or triple. The riders aren't going to regress back to dub 10's and 12's after last years showing. That would just be plain silly!
Jan 8 2011 3:44PM
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J_BISCHOF
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Since when is a 125ft true table a 100 foot step down?

kids these days.
Jan 8 2011 3:46PM
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jeR.
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nah bobby's got no steeze. got some skills but skis like a robot. hope henrik takes slope
Jan 8 2011 3:54PM
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KillaSeason
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WHY THE FUCK AREN"T YOU IN SLOPE????
Jan 8 2011 7:35PM
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mattytru
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thats exactly what i was thinking
Jan 8 2011 7:48PM
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c4t_l0ver
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this
Jan 8 2011 9:03PM
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DIX*
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Slope
1) Hatveit
2) BB
3) Russ

Pipe
1) Xavier
2) Dorey
3) Dumont

Large Air
1) RUSS
2) Elias
3) BB
Jan 8 2011 9:25PM
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undercover_skier
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any other predictions ?
Jan 9 2011 1:12PM
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Timlife
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Jacob won London Freeze and has some sick doubles. Lot more surprised about Jossi not getting in.
Jan 9 2011 1:50PM
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Timlife
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Double post, but from another tread i quote from the man matt walker himself:

''thanks for the support everybody!! this is the deal... i had surgery on my shoulder in july and the doc said i could ski at 4 months but i really shouldn't crash on it til at least 6 months. i opted out of dew breck and thankfully got a wildcard to dew Killy. the dudes over at ESPN didnt know this and they dont like having an injured rider's first comp back to be X-Games because everyone sends it at X and thats a recipe for disaster. I have talked to the espn dudes since then and informed them i am doing Dew Killy and they have taken that into consideration. They decreased slope from 20 riders to 16 (of which all 16 have already been named...) and they are gonna release a final list including alternates sometime next week and I am crossing my fingers!''
Jan 9 2011 1:52PM
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MTskiin
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this.
Jan 9 2011 2:06PM
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Elg
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I really hope we'll see some amazing stuff from PK in the big air comp. His air sense is unbelievable, even when he eats shit he looks steezy as hell.
Jan 9 2011 2:07PM
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thesheik
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este
Jan 9 2011 2:59PM
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doyle.
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too bad margetts isn't in pipe, but I'm curious to see the slope course
Jan 9 2011 4:32PM
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Mathieu.fr
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I'd be extremely disappointed and surprised if Matt Walker didnt get his induscutable invite for the slopestyle and if Matt Margetts didnt get also his ticket for the superpipe...

Talking about superpipe, I dont feel like the frenchies are going to slay as much as they did last year, they'll surely do well and place but I dont see them on the top of the podium for this year X Games..I'd bet on the Canadian, Riddle and Dorey slay way to hard and there is no way they didnt get on the podium !
Jan 9 2011 4:44PM
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RoadRash_Skier
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I'm not saying Bobby can't grab, I just think his run had a lack of diversity by doing the same old grab 3 time in a row. For me it bring kind of a bad flow to the run, and a lack of style.
Jan 9 2011 5:15PM
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Yung_Gnarley
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Big Bertha was a step down...
Jan 9 2011 5:38PM
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mattyb.
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Whew! Heard Mart Margetts got his Xgames invite today at North Face Pipe event.
Jan 9 2011 7:28PM
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Malcolm
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sick! he deserves it
Jan 9 2011 7:31PM
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DrZoidberg
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I'd like to see Dumont win. He'll probably explode if he doesn't though. And watching Jossi ski pipe is awesome, he's not still hurt is he?
Jan 9 2011 8:19PM
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skiRay
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Its sad to see a lot of the old names go and weird seeing new ones in. I got so used to a lot of the same guys every year in highschool haha. But id still liketo see dumont get his pipe gold.
Jan 9 2011 8:43PM
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Chompo.
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WHY ARE YOU NOT IN SLOPE STYLE??????

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big air- Russ
slope style- sammy or bobby
pipe- rolland or dumont
Jan 9 2011 10:05PM
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undercover_skier
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well get used to it or go back to high school lol
Jan 10 2011 9:25AM
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mattytru
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read the thread lulz




and i honestly would really like to see simon take the win, but im not sure how feasible that is
Jan 12 2011 4:14PM
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Twig
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Its ridiculous that Duncan Adams is only an alternate for slope.
Jan 12 2011 4:23PM
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curator
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walker's run was my favorite last year   pissed he's not in it
Jan 12 2011 4:34PM
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MaryO
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Checking the site today, I see Tom is now listed for Big Air.

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

Jan 13 2011 10:02AM
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MaryO
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^As an alternate that is.
Jan 13 2011 10:03AM
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stuff
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I honestly can't believe nobody mentioned Colby West... I mean, all these 15y old kids are super cool and talented and all but c'mon, 2007, 2008, 2009 medalist, 4th, 5th in both pipe and slope, what? I'm not even talking about personality.
Jan 13 2011 2:09PM
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