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ASPEN Coming around along with an ankle sprain, snowboarder Shaun White has been still qualified to remain competitive within Sunday's superpipe qualifer along at the Winter X Games and also simply sophisticated towards the finals.
White, that withdrew from your slopestyle occasion about Friday, re-aggrevated that ankle sprain after a exercise session Thursday.
On his or her first water pipe qualifier manage Sunday, White kept that straightforward as well as scored an 88.66, that was one of the best credit score in the first runs. It banded as the finest over the second set of runs, but White went ahead of time and did a next run whilst he / she already had the top spot.
On his subsequent click with the second run, White gone for a frontside grab on a instantly air along with dropped on his chest plus confront end of it of the pipe. He been able to acquire upwards as well as vehicle out.
"I seemed to be only praying my personal ankle would certainly store up. I have got my boot styles upon extra tight," White told ESPN right after their first run. He added it had been a "good call" to help pull out connected with slopestyle to sleep the particular ankle for superpipe.
Showing as long as that superpipe regarding 1 hour prior to a qualifier has been scheduled to be able to start, White got throughout five training goes a good demonstrated very little signal becoming slowed by the injury.
White offers claimed your superpipe yellow metal 6 months time times, such as over four in the row. The finals are generally 7:45 tonight.
There were sixteen boarders trying to are eligble for eight spots within the finals.
Steamboat Springs' Matt Ladley scored 76 items upon their first qualifying run in addition to standing fourth going into tonights finals. At 20, they are the youngest driver inside field.
Among people that would not improvement were Scotty Lago, that has a silver plus bronze within the X Games pipe, along with Danny Davis, that had been the last for you to beat White inside a level of competition throughout January 2010.
David Krause: 303-954-1893 or even dkrause@denverpost.com
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