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Swiss Rider Outguns Scott In Halfpipe Championship

Fawcett and Shaw Punish Euros In Mount Snow Super-G (3-16-96)

Todd Richards wasn't super happy to compete with the entire cast of the World Cup Tour. After all, it was the North American Championships, the final event on the American Pro Snowboard Series, March 17, 1996.

"This is the North American Championships," Richards said at the top of the pipe. "All these Europeans are just here for the points. There is no way I'm getting beaten by a European."

Jimi Scott, winner
Fabian Rohrer, and
a bummed Todd Rich-
ards getting paid. I
won't say it, but Todd's
second run was pretty
similar to his Vail
second run.

Obviously, it wasn't Todd's day. Though both his runs were solid, his airs just weren't high enough to grab the top amplitude scores. Fabian Rohrer of Bern, Switzerland put together the two highest scoring runs including a McTwist, 720, and monster airs. He ended up knocking both Jimi Scott and Richards right out of the top spot. "I had to hold back a little in the first run, but in the second I had to go all out," Roher said. "The Americans are very good riders and there was extremely tough competition here."

Jimi Scott of Carlsbad, California who took second enjoyed competing with the North American's but thinks most of them need to get out on the world tour. "I think a lot of them are just being lazy," he said. "They need to do the World Cup tour where the real competition is."

In the Women's competition Aurelie Sayres beat out Norwegian Stine Kjeldaas and Ulli Hoelzl of Austria.

WOMEN
1.   Aurelie SAYRES      USA
2.   Stine KJELDAAS      NOR
3.   Ulli HOELZL         AUT
4.   Minna HESSO         FIN
5.   Michele TAGGART     USA
6.   Tricia BYRNES       USA
7.   Jennie WAARA        SWE
8.   Doriane VIDAL       FRA
9.   Jennifer SHEROWSKI  USA
10.  Jodi ADCOCK         USA
MEN
1. Fabien ROHRER         SUI
2. Jimi SCOTT            USA
3. Todd RICHARDS         USA
4 . Aleksi LITOVAARA     FIN
5. Sami HYRY             FIN
6. Noah BRANDON          USA
7. Marius SOMMER         NOR
8. Kale STEPHENS         CAN
9. Seth NEARY            USA
10. Drae GLOVER          CAN
11. Roman SCHWAB         SUI
12. Brett CARPENTIER     CAN
13. Bjorn LEINES         USA
14. Collin LENTZ         USA
15. Jarkko KAURANEN      FIN
16. Jeff BRUSHIE         USA