X-Games live update from Aspen!!

Hey Guys,

It is super long active days here (9-22), so we are really tired.

So far only the skiers had their HP-finals and I guess that you all heard by now that Andreas got 4th and Miss Jaeger got silver!

Kjersti rode sooo god all week with big mctwists and back-to-back inverted 7:s, strangely she didn't fell once on the training and we were all confident that she had a really good chance on a podium place, but in the qualifications she fell in both her runs on the inverted 7. She was super angry...

So today she was going to get a final spot at the SS instead, but midair(!) she dislocated her shoulder when she tweaked her fs 3-stalefish. Very strange, but she was happy anyway and walked around with her ice-bag on her shoulder (see left pic). Both Jenny Jones and Cheryl is killing it so I think that it can be a EU slopestyle medal.

Jacob Wester was one of 4 that was selected to de the ski big air. The jump has been super sketchy. In the end the jump was acceptable, but both Jon and Jacob couldn't do anything since the jump was to small. In the first knock out run Jacob was up against Charles Gagnier and he got frustrated and pulled his kangaroo-flip (double back roll - 180) and landed perfect in the bottom and had to revert it. The judges had a 50-50 decision but Gagnier got through with his fakie 12. Jon was super surprised that Jacob could do it and started to do the same trick, but had 2 runs to fine tune it and knocked out Simon Dumont and Gagnier in the finals and won his first X games gold. He dedicated the win to Jacob in all his interviews.

The snowboarders are totally the kings of the X games. The slopestyle eliminations was really good to watch. Girls superpipe had the best standard ever. Kelly Clark went higher than most of the boys and even went for a 1080 two times in the final, and they are not far off!! Torah rode super smooth and technical, but Gretchen deserved the gold.

Check out all the x games results at www.expn.com

Hope everything is good,

Kristoffer

Zoe awarded Olympic Athlete of the year!!

The British Olympic Association (BOA) recently announced the full list of recipients of the 2007 Olympic Athlete of the Year trophy. Amongst them, Nike ACG teamrider Zoe Gilling!

Congratulations to Zoe for being awarded 2007 Olympic Athlete of the Year for Ski and Snowboard by the BOA. Zoe’s 7^th place at Winter X last year was an immense achievement and confirms here place amongst the elite in SBX. Zoe goes again this Saturday – fingers crossed for her!

Winter X Twelve

Brace yourselves folks, Winter X Twelve is under way. I just had a quick nose around the site (http://www.expn.com/) and thought I'd share this with you: a sweet 'little' feature on the Slopestyle course

photo: Dave Lehl

Heads up to all KAOS' extended family who are competing and watching out in Aspen. Also, don't forget that http://www.freecaster.com/ will have plenty of coverage for European audiences.

Enjoy

KAOS Birthday Party

KAOS celebrated their 5^th Birthday in style towards the end of December upstairs at the Old Queens Head in London attended by a lot of people that have helped us grow over the years and friends and family.

The party had a ROCK and ROLL theme – ‘Rock’ being covered with three great bands playing through the evening and ‘Roll’ with a selection of classic skateboarding films being shown on the big screen. People dressed according to Rock Memorabilia or Rollerama.

We started with a 70’s theme and Matt Quinn and the Darth Vader’s rocked out with killer cover versions of 70’s rock classics. Whilst our 80’s band, Caimbo are actually one of the best up and coming young bands around, we reckon they look a little bit like the boys from Poison and that’s good enough for us to claim them as our 80’s representatives. Check out Caimbohttp://www.myspace.com/caimbo. They have an upcoming gig at the Barfly and for £6 you won’t go wrong. Creating Kaos. Creative Director Andy Hunns has agreed to run down Oxford Street naked if Caimbo aren’t topping the charts very soon…is there a time limit on that Andy?

The final band, Feral Sun came courtesy of our man Jay Stephenson and rocked out with acoustic versions of classic 90’s grunge tracks.

Thanks to all the bands and people that came along to help us celebrate the evening and to all the current and past KAOS staff, clients and suppliers that have helped us get to where we are in our first five years.

Jenny Jones gets top in the BEO Slopestyle Semis

Britain’s Jenny Jones won today’s Burton’s European Open 2008 Slopestyle semi-finals in Laax.

With her flawless performace on the slopes, she beat 21 riders, including Jamie Anderson (US). Jones is now ranked number 2 in the TTR rankings. She, and seven others, made it into the finals, which will take place tomorrow. ...In the men’s competition, Shaun White (US) won again. The men’s final will have 16 competitors in all.

Today's Women’s Slopestyle Semi-Finals Results:

1 Jenny Jones UK BILLABONG 66.33
2 Jamie Anderson USA SALOMON 61.50

3 Silvia Mittermueller GER OAKLEY 61.33

4 Sina Candrian SUI BURTON 57.17

5 Meri Peltonen FIN PROTEST 56.00

6 Lisa Filzmoser AUT ELAN 54.67

7 Kjersti Buaas Oestgaard NOR ROXY 54.00

8 Margot Rozies FRA ROXY 52.67