Press Release

Blazusiak Takes Home Gold in Inaugural Enduro X Debut


Poland's Taddy Blazusiak made one heck of a grand entrance to his first X
Games appearance Sunday, helping close out the games with a gold medal
in Moto X Enduro X, the newest sport at X Games 17.

 

"You just try to push yourself to the limit and that's what I tried to
do and you had to make a decision in the split of a second," Blazusiak
said. "I'm really happy, I had a steady start, I wasn't going over my
head and I just worked my way through."

 

The debut of Enduro X was nothing short of incredibly exciting with
riders racing 10 laps around a course littered with boulder fields, a
pond, wood logs and bank turns.

 

Mike Brown, who also made his first appearance on the X Games scene this
year, kept the heat on Blazusiak, finishing just 14 seconds behind the
winner for the silver medal.

 

"It's my first time at X Games and it was great. It's fun to watch and
there's always something going on in this sport. I hope we get to come
back again next year and put on a good show for everyone," Brown said.

 

A two-time champion in the World Off Road Championships, Justin Soule
was able to add more moto hardware to his collection with his
third-place-finish.

 

"This is awesome because everyone gets to see what Enduro X is. Everyone
knows what BMX and skateboarding is and now they know Enduro X so it's
cool and it's an honor to be a part of this," Soule said.

 

The Enduro X events capped off four days of X Games 17 competition that
garnered an attendance of 141,500 people in the heart of downtown Los
Angeles' L.A. LIVE, beating last year's attendance of 138,525.

 

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X Games 17

In its ninth year in Los Angeles, X Games 17 will feature more than 200
athletes at competition venues and event spaces including STAPLES Center
and Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE. The 17th annual action sports
competition to be held in Los Angeles July 28 – 31 and will debut the
new discipline of Enduro X, as well as the first-ever rally street
circuit running through the downtown area.ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will
combine to telecast 25 hours of live X Games 17 competition. In addition
to the 25 original hours in high definition, the Worldwide Leader in
Action Sports will also televise 21 hours of X Games action on ESPN 3D.
More than 29 hours will also be distributed on ESPN3.com.  
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