Anderson takes silver in slopestyle at X Games
By USSA
ASPEN -– Olympian Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe) earned silver Saturday at the X Games slopestyle snowboarding final after Norway’s Silje Norendal stomped a smooth run and pushed her out of the top spot.
Anderson and Norendal will meet again when slopestyle snowboarding makes its historic Olympic debut at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 6. Anderson was the only U.S. woman to advance to Saturday’s final.
Olympian Chas Guldemond (Reno) finished fourth.
Canadian Max Parrot won gold for the men while his teammate Mark McMorris followed with silver and Norway’s Ståle Sandbech earned bronze.