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Bear Mountain:
Goulet, Zwink Victorious
February 21, 1999
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Greg Goulet stunned the crowd at Bear Mountain on Sunday February
21, 1999 when he scored a 41.2 in his second run to win the halfpipe
competition.
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Greg
Goulet: winning is fun.
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Goulet who scored only 18 points on his first run was glad to pull
off a clean run. "I've been having some problems today," Greg said.
"But I really wanted to do this run. With a little luck, I guess
it almost worked. I really wanted to go a bit higher than I did."
Several runs before Greg's, Tai Ma put up a run that most thought
would win the contest. It was a huge, technical run that judges
scored as 39.8. Everyone thought it was all over.
Then Greg dropped in at the top of the pipe. He started off a huge
switch method, and then followed it up with a 720, a switch-Haakon,
and a backflip-to-fakie. He stomped them all and threw in very few
set-up moves.
Event announcer and rider Matt Kass, who was sidelined with a bruised
tailbone, couldn't stop screaming. "I don't care what the judges
say about this one," he yelled over the PA. "That is the most progressive
pipe run I've ever seen."
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Brushie
riding like only Brushie can.
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Jeff Brushie was back in his classic groove. He was the second
highest qualifier for the finals and then fell in both of his final
runs. "When it's combined I only fall in one run," Jeff joked before
the finals. "In a best of two final I just fall on both runs."
By placing fourth J.J. Thomas cinched the North American Halfpipe
title just ahead of Chauncey Tanton.
On the women's side Tara Zwink was riding bigger, faster, and stronger
than anyone else was. See started off with a huge method air and
mixed in a couple 540s and a mix of grabs. "I had problems in my
first run and I'm glad I didn't have them in the second," she said.
"That one felt pretty good."
Zwink finished ahead of Gretchen Bleiler, Bianca Berger and Alisa
Mokler and took the overall title away from Berger.
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