It took Jamie Anderson and Sage Kotsenburg (click here) two days to make
slopestyle everyone’s new favorite sport. Kotsenburg and Anderson
brought home gold medals in men’s and women’s slopestyle in the sport’s
Olympic debut. Not too shabby for an event Bob Costas likened to an episode of Jackass a month earlier.“I’m so happy,” Anderson shouted after winning the U.S.’s second gold in the event. “It was fricken’ mind blowing. What a day.”
It was mind blowing for everyone watching as well. Anderson landed two 720s in her winning run, and Kotsenburg pulled out a backside 1620 Japan Air.
Did you know what a Japan Air was on Friday?
What I can tell you is that by Saturday afternoon, everyone in the United States knew what it was, knew Sage Kotsenburg landed it, and knew slopestyle was the most insane sport they had ever seen.
