What a weekend, X Games 16 in Los Angeles, California was awesome!! Alexis Sablone, the 24 year elderly from Brooklyn, took gold although they didnt like the tea cup quarterpipe, which was modeled after a sculpture in Miami. Sablone used the stairs, rails & the stairs’ ledges en route to winning the women’s street gold medal on Sunday afternoon:
“All these girls were awesome skating” said Sablone, who completed with a silver medal last year. “I grew up skating my garage & parking lots. I never went to places like here. I was worried about it. So I did what I could & did not worry about what I couldn’t do.”
Although they was trailing Leticia Bufoni by a wide margin, they did a kickflip 50-50 rail grind to start her 86.00 winning run & did a frontside rail slide on the ledge to take the win.
“I love my kickflips,” they said. “It’s hard when things are sizable. It becomes a query to what tricks to try & do consistently. It was the kickflips & that rail. That definitely was my favourite section.”
Bufoni, a 17-year-old from Los Angeles who grew up in Brazil, completed second with a kickflip down the stairs & kickflip up a ramp. Evelyn Bouillart of Belgium completed third with a 50-50 grind down the rail on her final run. Covina’s Lacey Baker failed to advance from the elimination round. The Northview High School senior completed ninth overall with a best score of 60.33.
“Everything was kind of gnarly,” the 17-year-old said. “In general, I was not feeling this contest.” That said, they was the only skater to complete a 360 kickflip up the ramp & do a nollie kickflip over the gap.
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