Farrington Wins First Gold in Snowboard SuperPipe

Olympic Gold Medalist, Torah Bright, Takes Silver

Tignes, France - Kaitlyn Farrington has competed in the Winter X Games for the past three years, and tonight in the women's Snowboard SuperPipe final, she leaves Winter X Games Europe with her first gold medal. In a field of six women, four of whom were Olympians, Farrington and Bright went head-to-head for the title.

"I was already psyched after all my runs because I knew, regardless, I was going to be on the podium with Torah," Farrington said of watching Torah take her last run that would decide the champion.

Farrington led after her first run then had to bump up her difficulty with a backside 900 in run two when Torah Bright took the lead. Bright's third run was her best with a combination of tricks that included a backside and frontside 540, backside air and frontside 720.

"X Games is such a huge event to action sports and to have it in France only enhances the culture of action sports on a whole," Bright said of Winter Games coming to Europe. "That is why I am here to support the first ever Winter X Games Europe - it is history in the making."

France added another medal to their count as Sophie Rodriguez of Grenoble finished with a bronze.

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WINTER X GAMES EUROPE 2010

The inaugural Winter X Games Europe will feature nearly 150 men and women from across the globe competing for medals and prize money in the sports of Skiing and Snowboard. Additionally, there will be daily Snowmobile Freestyle demonstrations. The event is the first Winter X Games held outside the United States and brings together ESPN's world class X Games franchise with Canal+ Events and Tignes Ski & Snowboard Resort. 

Together with CANAL + Networks (CANAL +, CANAL + SPORT, Sport +) and ESPN International, Winter X Games Europe will be broadcast live in eight countries, including France, and distributed to 166 countries and territories, including Latin America, Middle East, Pacific Rim, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, Israel, Caribbean, North America and Europe.

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ESPN X Games      Katie Moses Swope, Katie.moses@espn.com, +1-310-339-4552

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Tignes Resort        Danièle Chaudan, dchaudan@tignes.net, + 33 6 76 02 07 34