Two-time Winter X Games Ski Big Air gold medallist Bobby Brown has predicted this year’s competition to feature quite a few triple corks.
He made the bold prediction while speaking at a press conference held at the base of Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, on Wednesday.
According to the 21-year-old Winter X Games veteran and defending Big Air champion, the Big Air jump is big enough this year to finally allow the skiers to go for triple corks.
Even though a handful of triple corks have already been landed, with Brown being among the skiers with the boasting rights, the trick is yet to make its appearance in Winter x Games.
Colorado-based Brown, however, is aiming to end the draught this Saturday night by throwing the electrifying trick during the Ski Big Air contest.
"Last year was pretty flat and the jump wasn't amazing for skiers," said Brown, who won Big Air gold in 2010 and 2012. "You saw Mark [McMorris] and Torstein [Horgmo] do triples, but I think this year it's definitely going to happen. It's going to happen
in qualifying, I'm sure."
The prediction made by Brown does not seem to be far-fetched at all, considering the amount of talent that will up in contention for the coveted gold medal or place on the podium.
Shaun White, a well-respected name in both snowboarding and skateboarding, has already thrown a triple this week, though it was during a practice session.
Mark McMorris, the rider who holds the boasting right for landing the first-ever triple a couple of years ago, was just as confident about a few triple corks to be landed in a few day’s time as White.
Speaking at the jam packed press conference, he said that athletes were surely going to attempt triples in Slopestyle competition.
"I think it's pretty much guaranteed that people are going to be doing triples in Slopestyle," McMorris said while sitting next to White. "There's triples going down already on the second day of practice, and the semis haven't even started. So it's going
to be a wild one."
X Games Aspen 2013 will deliver the adrenaline-pumping winter sports action from January 24 through January 27.
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