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Kleveland stomps first ever Quad Cork in a comp
On his X Games debut Marcus Kleveland stuns with a never-before-seen trick in a competition.
Winning Big Air silver at X Games
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Records were broken on the second day of X Games action in Aspen when Marcus Kleveland, the youngest competitor in the field and participating for the very first time in this iconic event, landed a Quad Cork 1800 in-competition.
For those struggling to get their brain around the trick, a Backside 1800 Quadruple Cork is shred shorthand for a jump containing four off axis flips and five full rotations.
So far, a Quad Cork had only been landed four times at all:
First by Billy Morgan, followed just hours later by Max Parrot, and then repeated twice by 17-year old Marcus Kleveland. But stomping this trick under the pressure of a mega comp was unexpected – and catapulted Kleveland into the lead.
Watch Marcus Kleveland’s first ever Quad Cork in-comp at the Winter X Games 2017 in Aspen:
Kleveland stomps first ever Quad Cork in-comp
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But Parrot countered by writing history of his own when landing the first ever in-competition Quadruple Underflip, also an X Games first.
Landed cleaner, Parrot scored a point more and won gold, followed by Kleveland with silver and X Games legend Mark McMorris picking up his 13th medal with bronze.
X Games 2017 Big Air Kleveland, Parrot, McMorris
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Attention now turns to the Mens Slopestyle competition on Sunday, where McMorris has won gold on four of the last five occasions.
It'll be worth keeping an eye on what Kleveland and Yuki Kadono –renowned for the previous biggest trick, a Triple Cork 1620 – will pull out of the bag.
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