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Laurent Favre should have won x games
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Only one to do 9's 10's and switch tricks all in one run, nobody else did switch spins
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favre should own the world
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Give it some time. There's alot of politics involved in judged sports. You know how many more people would be pissed if Tanner hadn't have won?
We wouldn't hear the end of it for months on end.
It was a good move on the judges part for the greater good of the Ski Gabber forum on newschoolers.com.
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whatever, your tryin to say they should let tanner win because of politics honestly who cares about politics? and since when did politics matter in skiing?
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The thing of it is, no one's ever going to agree, but unlike last year, everyone but Jon got the respect they deserved (and Jon never gets respect at X), skiing wasn't slapped in the face, and we can all be happy that a good comp went down. So let's just stop complaining about results.
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Yeah, im no longer angry. Its supposed to snow 1 to 2 feet at hood tonight.
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LET tanner win?
are you actually going to allow that word choice to stand?
it's not like he didn't earn it, christ.
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hey fireunderwater go f urself and quit puttin words in my mouth..
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and he didnt earn it he did the same run 3 times in a row
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i too think he should have won
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that was the sickest pipe run i have ever seen!!!!!! GUNIT MOTHER FUCKER!!!
thank you LAurent for helping to change this sport with dope runs like that
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tanner should NOT HAVE WON
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and remember, Lolo is supposed to be a slopestyle specialist, not pipe!
He only received his card for the super-pipe 7 days before the comp', trained only 4 days. How's that for an impression!
Unfortunately almost no mention of his 2nd place is made in the french media today! That sucks!
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favre should have won. Hatveit throwed one of the most rivetting pipe runs.
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you mean by skiing the same fucking run he did last year, and not bringing any switch tricks into the arena...if tanner had thrown down switch tricks (and the judges would've given him first b/c of the sean white phenomenon) everyone would've been liek oh shit they gave hima good score b/c of his switch i gotta throw soem switch shit
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tanners stock run is sick, but a little old now, lets call id sickly. I was a unimpressed that tanner only made 1 grab i could see, that was his first hit on the 540, and it was barely visible. Laurent made 3 or 4 grabs a couple of them being tweaked and precise.
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Tanner's run was technically sounder - cleaner landings and smoother tricks. Laurent will win it next year.
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while i personally think laurent should have won followed by tanner and dumont, that can't work for the x games because no one outside of NS has heard of laurent. even my mom knows who tanner and simon are.
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what this man says is true
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it definitally wasnt more technically sound. how could it be more tech that laurent favre boosting way higher first hit and throwing switch tricks and still getting pretty high out for where he was in the pipe. i dont think he was even smoother that favre, he just went bigger throughout the pipe. i liked tanners run a lot and wasnt disappointed that favre lost just because of how stoked he was after his run. and i like tanner was doing it for cr.
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dumont shoulda coulda and woulda if his back was fUckEd
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fuck no..for once i actually thought tanner deserved a win..i have only seen the top 3 runs. Anyone else embarassed by that g-unit thing favre said?
OH, and dumonts truck driver is SOO overrated
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Tanner is just the and the x-games always give him a bit too much props. even if he did a sick run, favre's was a bit nicer.
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yea favre was pretty sweet.. got to give him credit for doing switch shit when no one else was..
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did you see andereas haveit? im pretty sure that was the most progressive run, switch 10's and dropping in switch? now in my opinion, no matter who won gold that was obviously the most progressive run for the sport this year
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Laurent is tied for my favorite skier with Pollard now.
His run was so sick... different, unique and solid as all hell.
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haviet was still the sickest, droppin in switch and shit? nobody else was doing that, that took balls.
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You know, it's hard to actually call it between the two of them, because of Laurent being original and tossing in the switch tricks. But Tanner's runn was just a lot cleaner, more polished. Both had some things you could pick at if you put the runs under the microscope, but why bother? The podium went more or less the right way, and 1 or 2 points you might have given one way or the other for any rider can pretty much be summed up by personal preference.
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tanners run was cleaner and more polished because he's done it so many times... it was the same run he did in the x-games last year. i still think he should have won but i wish he would've done a different run
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My favorite part was when Laurent got on the podium without throwing a 10, proving that you can do you own thing and still win.
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how is it technically sounder when lolo threw in 3 back to back switch hits and tanner threw...NONE???
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favre went bigger switch than tanner did regular.
tanner had to win though after the special they showed. they showed that damn thing like 4 times.
the xgames are not about progression kids, its like the olympics: they are about the drama or highly exploitable young atheletes.
all in all: favre won that shit by a mile. not as clean, but he skied that fuggin pipe 10 times better than thall.
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oh, and ps: you wont hear favre whining about having been cheated.
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the guys like laurent are the one's who r progressing the sport
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LoLo's got plenty of time to win it, THall deserves it. I couldnt watch on tv, just the espn vids but it looks like everyone seriously stepped it up huge. dumont fucking sent it, which got him the win last year, tanner was smooth as fuck with good amplitude and laurent took it switch... i'm pretty stoked in general at the state skiing's at... as far as park comps go i suppose... or just pipe maybe.
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wait. i fucked up. disregard the first post.
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i agree, lolo shouldve won for all his progressive switch shit
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i was really amazed that he didnt win he had the most tech run besides hatveit and he boosted the highest on his first hit and he said g unit mother fucker before he dropped in if that doesn't win the x games i dont know what does
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and Andreas (sp?) of course, dropping in switch was so sick
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all three were so close i cant really complain, o an btw dumonts 5 truckdriver was INSANE
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if someone kills it and shows tanner up they should win. Its bullshit if tanner wins just because of his rep, and i feel that it happened in super pipe
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you shouldve one the x games
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anyone have video of this run?
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