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David Wise: “I Sent it a Little Harder Than I Should Have” and Broke His Femur at the Audi Nines

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Just days after breaking the world’s highest air record for half-pipe to banked landing, David Wise crashed hard at the Audi Nines, breaking his femur.   View this post on Instagram   I’m taking on a new summer project: knitting my femur back together. It’s certainly unfortunate, but it isn’t BAD. I’m very disappointed to be ending my ski season […]
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9 Skiers Nominated for Awards at Tonight’s ESPYs in Los Angeles, CA

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Since 1993, the world’s best athletes have gathered to celebrate the year’s top athletic performances and victories, awarding ESPYs (which stands for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly) by popular fan vote. For athletes hailing from around the world competing at the highest level in sports ranging from bowling to basketball, taking home an ESPY is to athletes as an Oscar […]
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VIDEO: David Wise Becomes First Skier to Land All 4 Double Corks During a Contest

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History was made in Aspen, CO during the X Games Men’s Ski SuperPipe Competition as David Wise became the first person to ever land four double corks rotating in different directions,  reports NBC Sports. “I just started feeling the energy of the crowd,” Wise, said about his decision to try all four double corks in one run. “That was my goal at […]
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David Wise Calls Out “Spin-to-Win” and Quad Cork

David Wise is a lot of things: Olympic gold medalist, husband, father, and perhaps the most outspoken pro in the freeskiing world right now. He notably spoke out against FIS in January for scheduling the World Championships at the same time as the X Games. Wise made a Facebook post on Monday addressing the recent progression of the quad cork, landed for the first time on a snowboard last week. “Ever since I saw the Billy Morgan clip I have been waiting for someone to post this. Essentially the same landing, haha. Brings up an interesting conversation about an individual riders responsibility to the sport as a whole. I know […]
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David Wise Calls Out FIS for “Arrogance” in X Games Snub

For those of you who have been living under a rock, the 2015 Winter X Games is happening now at Aspen Snowmass. This year, they happen to overlap on the calendar with the 2015 FIS World Championships in Krieschberg, Austria… coincidence? Olympic and X-Games gold medalist David Wise took aim at the International Ski Federation (FIS) in a blog post on Tuesday, citing their “arrogance” in choosing to schedule the world championships the same week as the X Games. Wise calls it an “unforgivable blunder” to force […]
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Tahoe’s David Wise Wins Gold in Ski Halfpipe in Driving Sleet

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We know, we know, David Wise is from Reno, not Tahoe, but you can’t ski halfpipe in Reno. You gotta come up to Lake Tahoe, California to do that. So, we’ll claim him. And why wouldn’t we wanna claim David. The guy is a white-hot halfpipe robot right now. He won the gold medal at X-Games in 2012, 2013, and 2014 before winning a gold medal in the first ever Olympic ski halfpipe competition yesternight. Very impressive, David. […]
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