X GAMES: PASTRANA IS THE AIR TO ACTION-SPORTS THRONE NEEDS ONLY ONE RUN TO WIN MOTOCROSS FREESTYLE, HIS THIRD GOLD IN X GAMES.Byline: KEITH LAIR Staff Writer CARSON -- 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. went for a roll and picked up the role of a lifetime. Pastrana, who is becoming action sports' Michael Jordan This article is about the former basketball player. For other uses, see Michael Jordan (disambiguation). Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player. , rolled to victory in Sunday's X Games X Games Sports medicine The official Olympics of 'extreme sports' sponsored by ESPN, held annually during the summer. See Extreme sports. 12 at Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box Center, rolled his foot in the process and rolled into X Games history. Just call these the Travis Pastrana Games. Pastrana won his third gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize of these X Games on Sunday in front of 42,696 with only one run in motocross motocross Form of motorcycle racing in which cyclists compete on a closed course marked out over natural or simulated rough terrain. Courses vary widely but must be 1.5–5 km (1–3 mi) in length, with steep inclines, hairpin turns, and mud. freestyle, one of the X Games' signature events, and his best event. He is only the second athlete to win three gold medals in one X Games setting, tying a 1998 mark with BMX BMX abbr. bicycle motocross BMX Noun 1. bicycle motocross: stunt riding over an obstacle course on a bicycle 2. rider Dave Mirra Dave Mirra (born April 4, 1974 in Chittenango, New York) is an American BMX athlete and business owner. Dave Mirra is known as BMX's most dominant athlete and arguably the most dominant extreme athlete of all-time. . ``It's really hard to believe,'' Pastrana said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if I have the words to describe it. You have to be lucky more than good and this week, I was a little of both.'' Pastrana, 22, seemed to be everywhere at these X Games. He won the gold medal in motocross Best Trick on Friday with the first double 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. in competition history. On Saturday, he won the inaugural Rally car event when leader Colin McRae rolled his Subaru with about 100 yards remaining in the race. And on Sunday, the Annapolis, Md., resident came out with a backflip kiss of death kiss of death gangsters’ farewell ritual before murdering victim. [Am. Cult.: Misc.] See : Farewell , backflip lazy boy, backflip dead body and no-handed backflips to easily put away his four other competitors. Pastrana scored a 94.20. Adam Jones of Warrendale, Pa., was second with a 91.40, Mike Mason of Carson City, Nev., third with a 90.00 and Jim McNeil of Phoenix an 89.20. Mat Rebeaud of Temecula fell on his first run and did not make a second attempt. ``This win tops it all,'' Pastrana said. ``There were too many things that had to happen and to fall into place. I had to do the double without killing myself, I had to have someone roll their car to win rally and I had to be good here. I feel very lucky.'' Sunday's victory may have been the easiest. He didn't have to act like Jordan and win it at the last second. His toughest competition was already eliminated. Jeremy Stenberg broke a leg while keeping on the Dew Tour in Louisville, Ky., Kenny Bartram broke his shoulder and wrist practicing Friday and Nate Adams suffered a concussion on a fall in Saturday night's qualifying event. After his first run, Pastrana tripped over television cables and aggravated a torn ACL See access control list. 1. ACL - Access Control List. 2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics. 3. ACL - A Coroutine Language. A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines. ["Coroutines", C.D. , which he had planned to have surgery on after the X Games. ``It was the stupidest thing in the world to do,'' he said of the trip. ``No one would believe me if I told them.'' Pastrana said if he had to go out again, he would not have been able to put his leg over the Suzuki's handlebars, negating several tricks. He could not bend it while sitting on the bike after the win. Pastrana has won eight gold medals, tied for third in X Games history. He has won six freestyle golds, losing only once, when he finished second to Nate Adams in 2004 after falling and suffering a concussion the previous night. He is also tied for sixth in total medals won with 12. ``Travis Pastrana was impossible to beat,'' Jones said. After the victory, Ron Semiao, the creator of the X Games and ESPN's senior vice president in charge of original entertainment, gave Pastrana a thumps-up. ``Unbelievable, unbelievable,'' he said. ``It was incredibly unbelievable and so cool. Back flips, rally cars, motorcycles; Travis Pastrana is so amazing.'' The only thing he messed up in was SuperMoto. At the race's start, he fell. He finished a lap down and in ninth place. ``I messed up on SuperMoto, but I'm glad I was able to come back and put on a good show in freestyle,'' he said. ``The crowds this week have been unbelievable.'' He credits staying healthy for Sunday's victory. ``I just wanted to be healthy to set this up,'' he said. ``Some of the others were knocked out, but I was lucky to stay healthy.'' keith.lair@sgvn.com (626) 962-8811, Ext. 2272 CAPTION(S): 3 photos, box Photo: (1 -- color) Travis Pastrana wins first place in the motocross freestyle final Sunday at X Games 12 in Carson. It was his third gold medal of the games. (2 -- color) Adam Jones gets some air behind his attempt in the motocross freestyle final Sunday at X Games 12. Jones finished in second place. Ric Francis/Associated Press (3 -- color) KEVIN ROBINSON Box: X GAMES: LOS ANGELES - Roman Veytsman |
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