Aspen 2024 Men's Snowboard Big Air
X Games Aspen 2024 was Taiga Hasegawa’s third X Games appearance, and the 18-year-old delivered. The Japanese teen showed why he was a pre-event favorite in Big Air, becoming the first person to land a switch backside 1980 in competition. It powered him to gold, his first X Games medal. Hasegawa paired the switch backside spin with a backside 1980 in Run 3 and a strong Style score in Run 1 (a switch method air) to total a 94: Taiga finished an outrageous 11 points ahead of the silver medalist. For context, 2nd place to 6th place were separated by only 10 points. That’s how far ahead of the field Hasegawa was on this night.