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All rights reserved. That raised the bar, and now the triple is the key to winning Big Air and Slopestyle. Twenty Years, 20 Firsts celebrates the year legacy of the X Games in action sports with a collection of 20 of the most iconic first-trick moments in X Games history. Fans can vote on their favorite moment here.

Pressure or no, expectations were high heading into the contest. Torstein Horgmo had attempted several triple corks and landed a straight triple flip to the previous year, at X Games Aspen , just a few months after video evidence of him landing the first triple cork back home in Norway surfaced in Though it wasn't a proper triple cork, Horgmo's huck in was the first triple landed at X Games.

It was also enough to bump McMorris, then a 17 year-old X Games rookie with a lot to prove, to silver medal position. McMorris knew that topping a podium with Horgmo in the game was going to take getting way outside of his comfort zone, and devoted the next year of his life to the cause.

Torstein has done so much for snowboarding, and we've always been huge motivators for each other," McMorris says, giving credit where credit is due.

Once double corks were starting to become stock tricks, that's when we started to wonder, 'Can we squeak another one in there? Horgmo went for it, falling on his first three attempts.

McMorris crashed on his first try but landed it on his second, spinning an astounding four full rotations with three off-axis flips and hanging on to the mute grab all the way around for good measure. Just breaking down the spin for the television audience was a dizzying mouthful for the X Games announcers, much less for a snowboarder to actually go out and land it. Still, McMorris insists the trick to the triple cork is mostly psychological. The findings will be announced two days before the start of the season, which will be in Bahrain.

Distrust and timing are important elements as negotiations have yet to gain traction. Home Edge. SI Recommends. College Basketball. By Associated Press. College Football. By Wilton Jackson. By Madeline Coleman. Extra Mustard. By Jimmy Traina. Friday marked the first time the triple cork had been seen in competition. Big Air competitors are judged on the combined total of their two best tricks, and Horgmo fell on several triple cork attempts before landing it in his final run.

Sebastien Toutant claimed the bronze, thanks in part to his double cork Cab I had to go for it.