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A neighborhood youngster obtained on the X Games Aspen podium on Sunday evening, however it had not been the one most individuals anticipated. Even Jon Sallinen really did not believe he would certainly be taking house a medal.
“It was a little loose — the whole comp was a little loose — with a lot of crashes and a lot of people not landing their runs. But I got two pretty OK runs down, and I stayed in third place somehow,” he stated. “I thought (Aaron) Blunck was going to take it for that last run but somehow managed to get it, and I’m super, super stoked.”
In his X Games debut, Sallinen completed 3rd in the guys’s halfpipe winter sports competition that shut out the celebrations at Buttermilk, behind …
