Aussie James pipped for gold in halfpipe
Australia's Winter Olympics メダル 希望に満ちた Scotty James has won silver at the World Cup halfpipe 決勝戦 in Snowmass, Colorado.
The two-time Olympian and 統治するing world 支持する／優勝者 得点する／非難する／２０d 96.25 and appeared to be 長，率いるd for victory only for Shaun White to produced what many believe was one of the most impressive runs in snowboarding history to be awarded a perfect 100.
Japan's Yuto Totsuka finished the day in third place.
"It was a long day, a lot of 神経s," 23-year-old Melbourne native James said.
"The switchback twelve is something I've been working on and something that's never been done before so it definitely got me mentally the past couple of 競争s, but I was very stoked and over the moon to put it 負かす／撃墜する.
"I was just happy to come away and land a run pretty much."
In typical James style, he wore his red ボクシング gloves for the final run.
"My red gloves are just a bit of a tradition of 地雷, just my ボクシング gloves - ボクシング kangaroo," he said.
"I wear them all the time, every 決勝戦 I have them on - that's it, it's my mojo."
It was a 広大な／多数の／重要な 週末 in Snowmass for Australia, with 17-year-old Tess Coady （人命などを）奪う，主張するing the country's first メダル in a snowboard slopestyle World Cup.
