Danny Davis took first place at the X Games halfpipe on Thursday night after two qualifying and three final runs.
The win is Davis鈥 second in the X Games. His previous winning run was a McTwist, frontside 900, backside 720 and trademark switch method into two double-cork 1080s, scoring him 93.66 points, . Davis came back from last place to top of the heap in the final run of the best-of-two qualifying contest.
鈥淚 think it鈥檚 getting to the point where everyone is doing a lot of the same tricks and the same runs,鈥 Davis told the Denver Post. 鈥淚鈥檝e been changing my tricks up a lot and it鈥檚 been working for me.鈥
Taku Hiraoka of Japan took silver, his first X Games medal, with a high-flying final run. Iouri Podladtchikov of Switzerland, who had ankle surgery two months ago, took bronze after botching his final run. Shaun White, who has 13 X Games gold medals to make him the world鈥檚 most dominant halfpipe snowboarder, came in fourth place.