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Fawcett and Shaw Punish Euros In Mount Snow Super-G (3-16-96) APSS Mt. Snow Slalom Results (3-15-96) |
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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."
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 |
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