Medal Moments 2024
Hasegawa Spins Competition-First Trick Into Gold
Men's Snowboard Big Air Aspen 2024 Revisited
Hasegawa Spins Competition-First Trick Into Gold
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.
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X Games rookie Hiroaki Kunitake landed a frontside quadruple cork 1800 in Run 4 and a Cab 1800 Indy to nose grab combo in Run 5 to leap from back in the pack to silver. Mons Roisland added another bronze to his X Games medal collection. The Norwegian went on to take Slopestyle bronze, too, and now owns 8 X Games medal total.
Rewatch the podium runs from X Games Aspen 2024 below!