McCann was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. When he was old enough to start riding a inch bike, he spent the entire day trying to learn to ride without training wheels. I moved into riding trails, and it evolved from there. The next year, McCann returned to the competition and was recognized by the visiting U.
Specialized teams for his talents. McCann accepted the offer, and a year later, he became a part of a new Mongoose Bicycles program alongside Chipres. Check the photos. McCann moved from Australia to Woodward Camp and focused his efforts on dirt and park competitions.
Throughout the first half of the early '00s, McCann vigorously worked the BMX Dirt and Park competition circuit, traveling to as many events as possible and entering the occasional vert contest to keep things fresh for himself. Typically, the discipline of BMX Vert requires a minimum two-decade commitment to rise to the top of the field. But McCann was clearly on the fast track. By , he had progressed from casual vert rider to finishing third overall in the Dew Tour series.
McCann missed X Games in because of an injury, but returned to grab dual silver medals in Vert and Big Air in , followed by a gold medal in Big Air and the often-referred-to silver in Vert in What's remarkable about McCann's rise through the vert ranks is that it was almost an afterthought to his pursuits on dirt and park. The fact that he's only seriously been pursuing vert for less than a decade is incredible in itself -- that he's been able to rise to the top of the discipline and push the progression and consistency of some near-impossible vert tricks is awe-inspiring.
He is quick to acknowledge the drama of the first-place chase, the competition, and the sheer pressure he's unknowingly applied to Bestwick over the past year McCann won BMX Vert at the Salt Lake City Dew Tour a few weeks after XG17 , but that is not his driving force in competing at X Games.
It doesn't happen very often, when everything just feels so perfect. Every wall in that contest just felt like I was on. Putting everything I have together is what it comes down to on the vert ramp. You just concentrate on what you're doing and living in that moment, and that's why I'm here. He doesn't refer to these weeks in the lead-up as "training. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Harden on blowout of Bulls: 'We're that good'.
Brooklyn Nets. Alabama Crimson Tide. Each rider will have multiple timed runs where they will throw down as many insane trick combos as possible with the ultimate goal of going home with some X Games hardware. Jones hopes to bring home the gold as he torques this backflip combo high above the arena floor. Villa has tricks like this backflip cliffhanger on lock and will definitely be one to watch come competition time.
Villa getting fully extended as the FMX practice sessions wrap up. Vital MX - Motocross. Related: Edit Tags Done. The event also included a style presentation and screenings of documentaries about pro snowboarder Kevin Pearce "The Crash Reel" and Green Day "Cuatro!
Wade moved the needle on the height meter to 23 feet, 3 inches to get his name in the X Games record book. Torstein Horgmo won Snowboard Big Air gold with a switch backside triple cork , the first landed in competition. In Snowboard Slopestyle, X Games rookie Max Parrot got silver with the first triple cork landed in a slopestyle contest.
She held her own against the men, picking up a bronze medal in the event determined by fan voting on Twitter. Burnquist won three golds in Skateboard Big Air in and also recorded a pair of firsts. He landed a switch ollie, shown here in Munich, and also landed a lien rodeo in Foz.
The debut of Women's Skateboard Park brought some marks: Alana Smith, 12, won her first medal and became the youngest medalist in X Games history. Lizzie Armanto, shown here, won her first gold.
The only other snowboarder who has this trick dialed is Shaun White, and he's never landed it in a competition before. A ollie had never been done anywhere by anyone before Jake Brown landed one in Foz.
Brown won bronze in the Skateboard Big Air competition there. Canadian Brett Rheeder, shown here dropping in for his final run, took home the gold in dramatic fashion. He edged out countryman Brandon Semenuk for the win.
Sammy Carlson won the judges' favorite award.
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