Thomas Pages of France, a pioneer of freestyle motocross quarterpipe, won gold at the X Games debut of Toyota Moto X quarterpipe. Pages earned by throwing a revolutionary motorcycle flip in his second race; he was the first athlete to land the trick again in 2014. Page lost his first attempt on Sunday, but got the bike flip in his second pass for a score of 95.33, beating New Zealand Levi Sherwood, who made his signature egg roll trick and scored 93.00 for the silver medal. Sheehan, who recently won the first triple backflip in the history of motocross in Travis Pastrana's house in Maryland, the bronze medal was.
(Courtesy of Monster Energy) Josh Sheehan Monster Energy took bronze in the inaugural Moto X quarterpipe event at the X Games Austin 2015. In front of the high-energy crowd at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, the player 29-year-old from Donnybrook, Australia, had his second career medals at the X Games.
The X Games has always been about progression and the introduction of the first Moto X quarterpipe event is an example of that. The combination of a quarter-pipe ramp as you'd find in skateboard or BMX freestyle motocross competitions, the only rules were that each competitor would have two attempts, and the trick to really tell, had to walk out.
Time gold medalist multiple Monster Energy Freestyle Moto X Taka Higashino was forced out of the event with a broken foot, leaving his Monster Energy teammate, Australian Josh Sheehan, to maintain the strength.
Sheehan recently made headlines by becoming the first person to successfully land a triple backflip on a motorcycle, so there is no doubt that he is not afraid to push the progression and Moto X quarterpipe round one, Sheehan became the first competitor to land his trick actually - A Flair, combined with an Indian-Air Superman. Sheehan scored a solid 85.33 in the first round, placing second overall led to the second round.
Flair is a trick invented by BMX legend Mat Hoffman BMX, and in the second round, Sheehan pushed his trick even more, landing the same trick, but more widely, leading to a better score of 87.33 .
The X Games has always been about progression and the introduction of the first Moto X quarterpipe event is an example of that. The combination of a quarter-pipe ramp as you'd find in skateboard or BMX freestyle motocross competitions, the only rules were that each competitor would have two attempts, and the trick to really tell, had to walk out.
Time gold medalist multiple Monster Energy Freestyle Moto X Taka Higashino was forced out of the event with a broken foot, leaving his Monster Energy teammate, Australian Josh Sheehan, to maintain the strength.
Sheehan recently made headlines by becoming the first person to successfully land a triple backflip on a motorcycle, so there is no doubt that he is not afraid to push the progression and Moto X quarterpipe round one, Sheehan became the first competitor to land his trick actually - A Flair, combined with an Indian-Air Superman. Sheehan scored a solid 85.33 in the first round, placing second overall led to the second round.
Flair is a trick invented by BMX legend Mat Hoffman BMX, and in the second round, Sheehan pushed his trick even more, landing the same trick, but more widely, leading to a better score of 87.33 .
In the end, the pairing of a legendary stunt on BMX BMX-inspired event brought him the bronze in the first Moto X quarterpipe event. I was his second X Games medal after the bronze was placed in Moto X Best Trick at the X Games in Los Angeles in 2011.
Toyota Moto X Final Quarterpipe:
Toyota Moto X Final Quarterpipe:
- Thomas Pages, 95.33 Gold (FRA)
- Levi Sherwood, 93.00 Silver (NZL)
- Josh Sheehan, 87.33 Bronze (AUS)
Moto X Total Points Pipe Quarter:
- Thomas Pages Run February 1 70.0 95.33
- Levi Sherwood Run 1 Run 2 93.00 91.33
- Josh Sheehan Run 1 Run 2 87.33 85.33
- Davi Johnson Run 1 Run 2 67.66 67.33
- Jey Rouanet Run 1 Run 2 64.00 65.00
- Cameron Sinclair 51.66 Run 1 Run 2
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