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PWA Sotavento Fuerteventura Grand Slam 2010 Day Eight – Vice world champion, Kiri Thode takes down three times world title holder, Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo twice to win the first double elimination in spectacular style.
On the eighth day of competition the stunning white beaches of Sotavento provided the perfect backdrop to an all action double elimination, which culminated in the ultimate display of freestyle wizardry with the current world champion versus the current vice world champion.
Following a spectacular finale, head judge, Duncan Coombs made the decision to … Details
GRINDTV NEWSWIRE via ESPN-Ryan Sheckler has won his third X Games gold, edging Nyjah Huston by less than one point as the clock ticked down on Saturday’s Super Final. Sheckler took the lead in his first of five runs, in what was essentially a warm up — albeit a warm up that included a kickflip backside boardslide on the rail, backside kickflip down the gap, a hugeswitch kickflip that he barely landed and a backside tailslide down the ledge that earned him a 90.33.
With skaters given 45seconds or two crashes per run, Sheckler appeared … Details
Nyjah Huston Skate Street Silver
Heading into the Skateboarding Vert at X Games 16 all the pre-event hype was focused on Shaun White’s long-awaited return to the skateboard halfpipe. The golden boy of the Vancouver games was hoping to come back and put on a show…which he did. But White was outdone by skateboarding’s most dominant vert rider today, Pierre Luc-Gagnon, aka PLG, who took home two gold medals from the Staples Center Friday night: Skateboard Vert and Best Trick.
All the while, the Canadian did all he could to emerge from White’s giant X Games shadow. There, however, he didn’t succeed  … Details