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Utah 2019 big air World Champion: N/A (cancelled)
Sierra Nevada 2017 big air World Champion: Anna Gasser (AUT)
17 years into her international career still at the absolute pinnacle of the sport, Jamie Anderson of the host U.S. squad comes into Aspen 2021 looking for one of the only titles she doesn’t yet own, as she seeks to add world champs gold to her extensive trophy case. With back-to-back Olympic slopestyle gold medals and the PyeongChang 2018 big air silver, two crystal globes, eight X Games golds, ten World Cup wins, eight US Open victories, and innumerable other accolades, Anderson’s CV is the heaviest in all of snowboarding. The 30 year-old has shown nothing but excellence once again this winter, and we expect nothing less than that from her this week in Aspen.
Corning and Gerard among Summit locals to compete in Aspen World Championships
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Sven Thorgren had an energy-induced epiphany while he and podium mates Marcus Kleveland and Mons Roisland chatted Sunday night about what was moments prior the greatest snowboard big air contest ever seen.
By far.
Without a single fan in attendance under the lights at Buttermilk Ski Area, the medal-winning trio was buzzing on the sporting feat that they and five other fearless young men helped manifest.
“Now that I think back to it, it was insane,” the Swedish silver medalist Thorgren said. “What just happened?”
Then, after saying how far the sport had come in just four years, he pointed at Kleveland.
Snowboarders Rene Rinnekangas, left, and Dusty Henricksen hug as they take their perspective podiums after medaling in the X Games 2021 men’s snowboard slopestyle finals at Buttermilk on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Snowboarders Rene Rinnekangas, left, and Dusty Henricksen hug as they take their perspective podiums after medaling in the X Games 2021 men’s snowboard slopestyle finals at Buttermilk on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Snowboarder Rene Rinnekangas competes in the men’s snowboard slopestyle finals at the 2021 X Games at Buttermilk on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
X Games rookie Dusty Henricksen competes in the men’s snowboard slopestyle finals at the 2021 X Games at Buttermilk on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
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