Goepper Barely Makes X Games Ski Slopestyle Final

Friday, January 25, 2019 at 7:36 AM

By Mike Perleberg @mikedup84

Hidden Valley native Nick Goepper has a chance to earn his fourth Winter X Games gold medal in the slopestyle final on Sunday, January 27.

Nick Goepper at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. Photo via Mark Clavin, U.S. Ski and Snowboard.

(Aspen, Colo.) - A couple southeastern Indiana guys did well at the opening day of the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado on Thursday.

Olympic skier Nick Goepper came in seventh in the qualifying rounds in men’s ski slopestyle. The best of his two runs was an 82.33 as he was sharp on the rail portion of the course, but was reserved on the jumps.

Luckily, the seventh-place performance just does get him into the ski slopestyle final on Sunday. Goepper has three previous winter X Games gold medals in the event, so competitors shouldn’t count him out despite his prelims scores.

You can watch the men's ski slopestyle finals at the Winter X Games on Sunday afternoon on ESPN 2.

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Just squeaked into finals😳. Everyone crushed it today! Sunday is gonna be rad! And @twallisch, we already have several plants 😉.👊🏻#xgames #slopestyle

A post shared by Nick Goepper (@nickgoepper) on Jan 24, 2019 at 3:00pm PST