{"id":251542,"date":"2026-01-25T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251542\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:08:08","slug":"luca-harrington-goes-back-to-back-as-kiwi-riders-claim-three-x-games-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251542\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Harrington goes back-to-back as Kiwi riders claim three X Games medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLuca kept in the hunt, made the most of training, and just smashed it, scoring the highest in the first run, getting bumped down as conditions improved, only to step right up in his second run to claim the title going back-to-back following his win as a rookie last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Sadowski-Synnott had a fantastic Snowboard Big Air final, going almost orbital with her second run backside triple 1440 scoring a 94.66, yet was bested in an extraordinary show by Cocomo Murase, who landed a never-been-done backside triple cork 1620 to win the gold with a score of 96.66.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cZoi landed a flawless back triple 14 first run and was able to improve on the second. Given she has been out of action for a while, it was incredible [although true to form] for her to build right back to her best level of riding,\u201d Willmott said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">In the men\u2019s Snowboard Big Air, Jamieson saved the best for last across his three runs, landing a backside 2160 to score 90.66 and a silver medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRocco has been gunning for the back 21 for a while but this was his first opportunity to land this behemoth of a trick on snow,\u201d said Willmott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLuca kept in the hunt, made the most of training, and just smashed it, scoring the highest in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[806,33332,59740,6028,2741,23552,2112,6489,5275,145066,194,58138,49539,20562,111,139,69,1076,146023,213,1529,5977,80],"class_list":["post-251542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-as","tag-aspen","tag-backtoback","tag-champion","tag-claim","tag-claimed","tag-colorado","tag-games","tag-goes","tag-harrington","tag-kiwi","tag-luca","tag-medals","tag-mens","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-riders","tag-slopestyle","tag-sports","tag-three","tag-which","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}