'TWITCH' SHOWS HE'S BEST TRICK-STER STENBERG WINS MOTO X COMPETITION.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer Extreme danger took a backseat to practical danger at the Moto X Best Trick competition at X Games X Games Sports medicine The official Olympics of 'extreme sports' sponsored by ESPN, held annually during the summer. See Extreme sports. 11 at Staples Center This article has multiple issues: * Its neutrality is disputed. * It may contain original research or unverifiable claims. * It does not cite any references or sources. on Thursday. A sport best known for the tremendous peril The designated contingency, risk, or hazard against which an insured seeks to protect himself or herself when purchasing a policy of insurance. Among the various types of perils for which insurance coverage is available are fire, theft, illness, and death. PERIL. it puts its increasingly chance-taking athletes in was a bit more moderate in the risk department this year than in X Games past. Relatively speaking, of course. Any time someone goes flying high into the air on a motorcycle and tries to complete one-handed - sometimes no-handed - jumps in which they're also navigating mid-air backflips they're taking the chance they won't live to tell about it. Literally. It's just that this year the tricksters seemed to tone down their risk taking just a bit. Jeremy ``Twitch'' Stenberg took home the gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize with a pair of mind-boggling jumps. His first was a turn down backflip back·flip intr.v. back·flipped, back·flip·ping, back·flips To perform a backward somersault, especially in the air. n. A backward somersault. that set a new X Games record for distance (90 feet) on a back flip A back flip, also known as a papes or dipset, is practiced in gymnastics, tricking, and various other activities. It is a move in which the person executing the move jumps from two feet, rotates backwards in the air, and lands on their feet again, without needing to and wowed the crowd and judges with its creativity. Stenberg took both feet off his bike soon after going airborne, then threw one hand up just as he landed. The jump earned him a 92.90 mark, which held up as the highest of the competition. His second jump - a tail whip back flip, scored 88.60 for an overall mark of 92.90 giving him more than enough cushion to hold off the nine other competitors. ``I'm definitely pumped because I've had a bunch of second places this year so to get first place at the X Games, that's definitely the place to do it,'' Stenberg said. Stenberg, a 23-year old from Winchester, finished fourth in Best Trick last year and fifth at the Winter 2004 X Games. He's been competing professionally since 2003, taking a best trick first place at the Moto X Championships in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. in 2004. Perennial fan favorite Travis Pastrana Travis Alan Pastrana (born October 8, 1983, in Annapolis, Maryland) is a motorsports competitor who has won championships and X Games gold medals in several events, including supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, and rally racing. took home the silver, thanks to an incredible no-handed landing after doing an off-axis back flip. The combo jump earned him a 91.20 and vaulted him from last place to second. Pastrana was in last place because of a dramatic chance he took on his first jump. Give him credit for being creative, just not his execution thanks to a faulty bike. Pastrana attempted a back flip bar spin in which he spun his front wheel while airborne. It's the first time anyone's tried the trick, but his inability to stick the landing hurt him - not to mention his bike, which broke in half. He made up for it with his second jump, which leapfrogged him over bronze medalist Nate Adams Nate Adams (born Nathaniel Adams on March 29, 1984) is an American motocross rider and extreme sports athlete. A resident of Temecula, California, he attained national fame when he won the World Freestyle Motocross Championship in 2002. . ``I'm super excited,'' Pastrana said. Plan A, B and C went down the drain in a hurry. But Plan D came through pretty well. It worked out for me.'' Chuck Carothers, the defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre , took the biggest risk, trying to equal his gold medal winning jump last year when he completed a Carolla Roll. This time he crashed violently on landing, crumbling to the ground alongside his bike, then hitting his head hard on the ground. Had he stuck the landing Carothers likely would have taken over first place. Instead, he needed to be helped off the course, finishing last in the 10-man field and suffering what was initially diagnosed as a fractured right shoulder. Vincent Bonsignore, (818) 713-3612 vincent.bonsignore(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Jeremy ``Twitch'' Stenberg rises above the competition to win the Moto X Best Trick competition at X Games 11 on Thursday. Jae C. Hong/Associated Press |
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