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A lot of other skaters feel the same way. Before the X Games bids farewell to Los Angeles, take a minute to reflect back on some of the more memorable highlights from the past 10 years of summer fun in the City of Angels.
X Games and Los Angeles might be synonymous with each other now, but the event actually began in and was held in four different cities during its first eight years. Newport, R. It felt like it was kind of a home game for us. It was nice to come home and be where a lot of the people lived and where the action was.
Staples Center, which helped kick-start the revitalization, opened a little less than four years earlier while old warehouses were being converted into high-end lofts. The X Games were held inside Staples Center and at the massive parking lot across the street.
That lot, however, became L. Live about four years ago, with a story hotel and condominium tower going where the MegaRamp used to be and the Nokia Theatre going where the street course was once was built. Adjacent lots have been purchased and plans have been made to turn those into more hotels, apartments, bars and restaurants as property values in the area have doubled over the past 15 years, according to the Downtown Center Business Improvement District.
Even the iconic banks on the Downtown Car Wash, which have been ridden by nearly every professional skateboarder alive, will soon be gone to make way for another new development. The shrinking space available and rising costs of rent in the area pushed some events to the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. It's a reality that has contributed to pushing the X Games out of Los Angeles. It works when you're little kids but as they grow and become teenagers they have to get their own rooms.
It just gets to a point where it doesn't work and that's what happened here. She is always a podium threat. X Games is kicking off its final year in Austin, Texas, with 19 events in three sports, all going down over the course of four days. Seven-time Step Up gold medalist Ronnie Renner was favored to win the first event of X Games Austin , but he stopped at the foot-mark and ended the night tied with Bryce Hudson for fourth place.
Meanwhile, Jarryd McNeil, pictured jumping, and Libor Podmol, sitting far right, tied for gold with foot jumps, and Massimo Bianconcini came in at 32 feet to clinch the bronze. The story going into this event was much like the last: Jared Mees came in as the reigning champion of the sport's main competition series, AMA Pro Flat Track.
Bryan Smith was the main challenger on the AMA series. In , Smith won X Games gold when leader Mees suffered a mechanical bike break down on the final lap. This year, Mees' bike performed in top shape and he bested the field for the win, with Kenny Coolbeth Jr. Julz Lynn, who won the bronze medal in that event, takes a practice lap in the park course Wednesday afternoon. After earning bronze in , his ninth Park medal, Cranmer tied Mirra's record for the most total medals in the discipline.
He brushed up against Mees, who was coasting to a stop, and pressured Bryan Smith for gold but ended in the silver-medal position. Sheckler is registered to compete in both Street and Park in Austin.
If he skates in both events it will be his first time competing in Park at X Games since Though there has been a flash flood watch for much of Texas this week, and the X Games venue has seen its share of rain, Mother Nature has been merciful and mostly limited her deluge to non-event hours so far. Jarryd McNeil boosts his way to gold in the first official final of the Games. Brazil's Gabriel Fortunato works on his run. Skateboard Street Ams opens the day's competition on Friday, starting at p.
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She became the first female cast member of the series "Camp Woodward. Nora Vasconcellos joked about it: 'Shoot, little one's coming up. I need to dial up some new stuff.
She's not scared to try new things. Zeuner composes a trick list that she must conquer each week. Last year, she labored to master a stalefish, which involves grabbing behind your back foot with your back hand and going frontside in the air. Slam after slam, Zeuner's body ached. She was on the brink of tears.
She studies their tricks and creates her own. They offer pointers and challenge her. They don't mind that she's 11 because they all speak the same language.
They cling to the belief that they aren't people who skate; they are skateboarders. Zeuner's backyard is paradise: endless skating with friends, endless sun, endless opportunities to prove herself. Zeuner isn't intimidated, no matter whom she's up against. Zeuner isn't the only one benefiting from the sessions. She's got a lot of respect from everybody. All of a sudden, a snake session, in which multiple skaters take the ramp, breaks out during a pro vert contest in April in Sweden.
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