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The Daily Newsletters. There was an error processing your request. Breaking News Be the first to know what's happening as it's happening. When a story breaks, your email dings. Sunday Roundup Catch up on the week's most-read stories. This is the family that she loved to surround herself with. This is where she was happiest. And so began a week of ecstasy, heartbreak and history, one that will be remembered for the way in which some of the most talented athletes in the world honored their beloved friend by forging forward in spectacular fashion.

Shaun White notched a perfect score -- out of -- for his victory lap in the Men's Snowboard SuperPipe final after unveiling his new frontside double cork in a run that also included a double McTwist Oh, and did we mention he was riding on a bum left ankle? He sprained it before arriving in Aspen this week, aggravated it in practice Thursday, missed the Slopestyle competition because of it and spent most of the week icing it on his couch.

Must have been some good ice. Not one to rest on his laurels, he's already thinking about how to top it with a six-peat in "There's always next year," he said.

Torstein Horgmo brought the first triple to the Winter X Games Big Air competition last year with a triple flip that left many purists quibbling that it wasn't a true triple cork spin. This year he shut them up for good with a picture-perfect triple cork and a perfect score -- 50 out of 50 -- to match it. Still, it was only good enough for silver since Winter X Big Air results combine the total of each rider's best two runs, and Horgmo didn't have another score big enough to fend off Mark McMorris.

Horgmo spent most of the competition trying triples instead of putting down a solid safety run, and we have a feeling he was working up to something even bigger before time ran out. Why go for broke at the expense of winning? Groenewoud did it in typical Burke fashion, too, boosting massive, fearless airs and linking technical tricks throughout her run. She won gold two days after another of Burke's teammates, Kaya Turski, strung together a near-flawless run to complete a three-peat in Women's Ski Slopestyle , sticking a trick she pioneered: the switch Turski landed her run in the clutch, too, needing to overtake two of the sport's brightest young talents on her final trip down the course.

She was pushing the sport even when she didn't need to, she was trying new tricks, landing new tricks, and I think now it's our turn to keep pushing for her. Only a year ago he was McRookie, winning silver in Slopestyle and just missing the podium in Big Air. This year he rode like he owned the place. The frontside double cork s he threw in his Slopestyle runs? Yeah, he learned those last week. All the pressure of riding under the lights in the big show at Buttermilk Mountain?

Fun is the operative word for McMorris, a snowboarder's snowboarder who doesn't seem to realize that the events at Winter X Games are competitions. Heath Frisby's frontflip in Snowmobile Best Trick on Sunday was the first time the trick has been landed on a snowmobile and only the second time it's been landed in any motorsports competition Australian freestyle motocross rider Jackson "Jacko" Strong won Moto X Best Trick at X Games 17 with a front flip last July. Frisby wasn't deterred after seeing his friend and rival Justin Hoyer auger into the snow on a failed double backflip moments before taking his run.

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Guest Services is located at the entrance of X Fest. Staff in the Guest Services tent will be available to escort an individual to the wheel chair viewing area. Please locate a Guest Services representative at the venue entrance or go to the Guest Services tent located in X Fest for information and assistance. Bumps Lodge also provides outdoor patio concessions along with a full-service restaurant indoors.

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