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2 years after brutal fall, Brown gets X Games gold

Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009 and is filed under Sport. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

LOS ANGELES – Jake Brown finally has something else to talk about. The skateboarder whose grisly, 40-foot fall to the floor of the X Games mega ramp two years ago drew gasps and became a viral video sensation, won gold Thursday night in the same Skateboard Big Air competition at Staples Center. “Feels great I guess,” Brown said. The 34-year-old Australian earned a 94 on the third of his five runs with a backside 360 over the mega ramp’s gap into a 20-foot-high McTwist over the half-pipe for his first X Games gold. Brown’s 2007 spill knocked…

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