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Over the past year, and particularly in the last month, there have been a ton of rumours and innuendo flying around about the pipe events at Cypress. Will they be a repeat of last year's World Cup? Will they have the snow? Will I-Pod unleash and dethrone Shaun White's gold status?
It's anybody's guess at this point but I got a first-hand look at the venue yesterday... in the absolute pouring rain! I'm not talking a little Wet Coast dampness here, I'm talking a torential downpour. Vancouver has been much praised about the promise of a "green" Games, but this is taking it to the extreme. full article

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Pastrana set a record in his car Subaru STI Impreca at the port of Pine Avenue in Long Being in California in the new year’s Red Bull “No Limits” event. Pastrana was driving at a speed of 146 km/h, jumped a total of 82 meters, successfully landing on floating barges. Pastrana is also surpassed the former record (52m) for the entire 30 meters.

“I was pretty nervous the whole day, but when I sat in the car, I felt very calm. It was much funnier than any of my attempts during the preparation and when I landed, the wall of the stop is close very quickly “, said the visibly excited Pastrana after the jump.

“I am happy that I didn’t finish in the water,” said Pastrana.
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It was a showdown like nothing the snowboard world had seen before. After battling some challenging conditions with blowing snows and winds, Shaun White fought his way through a stiff set of competition to take the first US Grand Prix and position himself for capturing a spot within the US Olympic team.

Shaun was looking down the barrel of some huge double corks as he put it all on the line in his first run going huge frontside air into backside 900 and then blasting out with a frontside double cork 1080 which he linked into a cab double cork 1080 and then into a frontside 1080 and finished with a super smooth cab 1080.

This run was quite possibly the highest level of snowboarding that we have seen in the sport's history and although there were some stiff competitors like Louie Vito, Shaun stayed ahead of the pack and continued to push forward.

Another Red Bull rider that put down some of the best riding of his career was Greg Bretz. After stomping his first run of the day, on his second run he really left it all out on the course throwing a huge frontside double cork. Although he stomped the trick, he tweaked his ankle on the landing affecting his last trick and his overall score. Greg still placed high in 6th place, earning him points towards and Olympic spot and setting him up for a showdown in his hometown at the next two Grand Prix's in Mammoth Lakes, CA.

As the sport moves into the ear of the double cork, Shaun is leading the charge with the tricks that he learned at Red Bull Project X last season in Silverton Mountain, CO.
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Behold for the Burton Team, the 2009 season started just like any other- resort and heli laps from New Zealand to North America and Europe, pipe, park, backcountry, and Stash runs, with riders leaving their mark at every stop. The snow-covered streets of Salt Lake, Minneapolis and sleepy European villages were explored. Corks were doubled and rails were combo’d as waves of winter storms cleaned and set a new slate for mission after successful mission. It was another dream season, but something was different this time. Something bigger, and more iconic, something so over the top that the movie had to bear its name. Jeremy Jones