With the Winter Olympics scheduled to start 10 days from now the excitement is starting to pick up, especially in the extreme sports. The Winter X-Games deserve a lot of the credit for that. The three day competition included some of the same events that will be held in Vancouver starting the 12th. Not only are some of the events the same but a lot of the competitors will be the same. The Winter X-Games in Aspen made a great practice stage for those going to the Winter Olympics. Though the pressure to win gold in Vancouver while representing your country is greater, athletes were still giving it their all in Aspen. The Flying Tomato Shaun White, who has a Midas touch of sorts in which every mountain he touches helps him get gold, nearly suffered a concussion during the X-Games. If you haven't seen the YouTube video, White crashed his face of the lip of the snowboard super pipe during a practice run. One would think after a crash that hard that he would be unable to finish the competition, especially so close to the Winter Games. Yahoo! Sports has White as being one of the stars to watch at Vancouver-though anyone who is going to watch will know that as soon as he takes the mountain. White did come back though, and with vengeance to nail a Double McTwist 1260 in route to winning his third straight gold medal. There were others at Winter X not named Shaun White, in the woman's competitions 24 year-old American Lindsey Jacobellis won her third straight gold in the Snowboard Snow Cross event. Jacobellis also won silver in that event at the 2006 Winter Games.
With the events so close together it is hard not to look for more after only 3 days of competition in Aspen. Very frequently the play by play on ESPN brought up that very point, as well as many of the interviewed athletes. I know I am ready for more, and after seeing what was displayed last weekend- BRING ON VANCOUVER!
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