X games enduro x 2012 results

I have to give the win to Taddy. Chasing him to the finish will probably be series regulars like Brown, Haaker, Robert and Soule. But behind them I expect to see plenty of crashing and bar banging from riders looking for those few precious seconds of TV time.

There may be an issue with the Instagram access token that you are using. Your server might also be unable to connect to Instagram at this time. Who Will Beat Taddy? Related posts. Latest Video. Follow on Instagram. New posts will not be retrieved. Amazingly enough, the entire circuit is built overnight after the Moto X racing, and features two water pools, several rocks and logs, and even step-ups and double jumps. Garth Milan Mike Brown holeshots his qualifying heat, which he went on to easily win.

Brown is amazingly fast in Enduro X, but what is more amazing than his speed is the fact that he competed in Moto X the night prior, scoring the Ironman award. Garth Milan Tarah Gieger got a great start and looked to have the win in the bag, but a crash and subsequent hangup prevented victory. Garth Milan It is very hard to believe that Mike Brown is 41 years old, especially when you see him tearing up the track with his picture-perfect moto style. Brownie took home a silver medal for his efforts.

Last year's inaugural Enduro X competition proved that slamming all the elements of a three-hour off-road race into a basketball arena for a minute, rider endo-fest is something a lot of people will pay money to see and turn their televisions on to watch. Enduro X is back in with the favorites, a lot of new faces, an even more difficult course and the same promise of crashes, bottlenecks and athletes being stranded amongst nature even though they're feet from luxury boxes and hot popcorn.

Ask champions Taddy Blazusiak and Maria Forsberg what they want, and they say the same thing but with two completely different meanings. Blazusiak wants to dance all over his competition.

Forsberg just wants to dance. Blazusiak is a relentless competitor who went undefeated in the Geico EnduroCross series, and he's pouring everything he has into winning another X Games gold medal in men's Enduro X. He's happy where he is and he wants to make sure he doesn't just win; he wants to crush. The year you're not improving is the year you start losing. Forsberg, the women's gold medalist, is the favorite to repeat as Blazusiak is in the men's division. She likes winning also but she's really hoping another gold medal will get her an invitation from ABC's "Dancing With the Stars.

I just love it. That seems like the last place to find someone like Forsberg, a personable young woman who performs well in the spotlight but doesn't crave it. That's the part she likes the least. I found out I'm not good at that because I don't do it for attention. I'm really just addicted to racing," she said. Like SuperMoto back in , Enduro X is a sport that brings together talent from several different disciplines.

It's also becoming clear that riders with the best chance of winning are those who specialize and focus on this sport the most. The lineup is filled with trials riders, desert racers, extreme enduro specialists, hare scrambles competitors and a few like Blazusiak who make EnduroCross their No.

EnduroCross prides itself on being unpredictable, and it mostly is. Except for the fact Blazusiak has won 19 of the past 23 events and only two other riders on the man invite list have ever won a final. At Round 2 he finished 10th and Blazusiak was back on top. The riders who have the best chance of beating Blazusiak at X Games are two riders who have never won a final -- his teammate Mike Brown and extreme enduro rider Graham Jarvis.

Brown is last year's silver medalist and England's Jarvis is making his debut at X Games. Gary Sutherlin of Bakersfield, Calif. The second-year X Games competitor believes it can be done but has yet to make his strategy stick. If you're with him the entire race you can beat him.

Forsberg hasn't been quite as dominant in the new EnduroCross women's division but she's still the clear favorite.