Bowman snares gold at X Games

Maddie Bowman of Meyers won her fourth consecutive X Games gold medal in ski superpipe on Jan. 29.

She is the first woman to land a switch 900 in the superpipe during competition.

The 22-year-old said she learned how to take off backward with 900 degrees of rotation on Wednesday. Judges gave the Sierra-at-Tahoe skier a score of 87.33. This is her sixth X Games medal.

Taking second was Ayana Onozuka of Japan, with a score of 85; Annalisa Drew of Andover, Mass., took the bronze with 83 points.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report