Last week’s innaugural European Winter X-Games attracted many of the biggest names in snowboarding, creating possibly the biggest media feeding frenzy European snowboarding has ever seen. Not that you’d have realised if you were in the Austrian resort of Mayrhofen, where nobody seemed to even notice the circus over the hills and far away in Tignes. Instead, all eyes – and a considerable ammount of local pride – were focussed on the Wangl Tangl, the annual contest organised by the Aesthetiker Crew who call Mayrhofen home. And while the contest was smaller in scale than last year’s event (thanks to a couple of big money sponsors pulling out) – and it clearly had nothing on the size of the spectacle taking place in France – it was clear from the outset that the local boys were out to prove a point … Details & Pictures
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