<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">X Games Minneapolis continued Saturday as 47,000 fans passed through the gates at U.S. Bank Stadium to watch the most talented action sports athletes in the world compete in a wide range of events including The Real Cost Skateboard Big Air, the Fruit of the Loom BMX Dirt Final and the crowd favorite Monster Energy Moto X Best Trick.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first of three Skateboard competitions today saw <strong>Alex Sorgente </strong>defend his gold from last year at the <strong>Toyota Men’s Skateboard Park Final</strong>. Wasting no time, it was Sorgente’s first effort that stood up against every run the other eleven riders put down Saturday afternoon. Taking a unique approach to the course and with a risky trick selection that included an ally-pop wall ride and a kickflip indy, Sorgente took his 89.00 and held on to the top spot the rest of the competition. Twenty year old <strong>Tristan Rennie</strong> earned his first X Games medal with a silver in a run highlighted by a smooth 540 nosegrab. <strong>Tom Schaar</strong> grabbed bronze, upping his X Games medal count to eight. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Alex Sorgente - </strong>"Any of the homies could have won this today. I just try to think of it as just another session skating with my friends<strong>”.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Afterwards, crowds shifted their gaze to the adjacent Park course to watch <strong>Mariah Duran</strong> piece together a podium topping run in the <strong>SoFi Women’s Skateboard Park Final</strong>. With effortless style, Duran cruised through her run, landing difficult tricks like a kickflip 50-50, a frontside lip slide and a frontside 360 to take her first gold at X Games. Awarded a score of 87.66, it was enough to edge out last year’s winner <strong>Aori Nishimura</strong> who posted a 86.00 after her second run. Rounding out the podium was <strong>Alexis Sablone</strong>, a Brooklyn based architect and three-time gold medalist.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.000133333px; perspective-origin: 0px 345px; transform-origin: 0px 345px 0px; -webkit-app-region: none;"><strong style="-webkit-app-region: none;"><span style="-webkit-app-region: none;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.000133333px; perspective-origin: 0px 345px; transform-origin: 0px 345px 0px; -webkit-app-region: none;"><strong style="-webkit-app-region: none;"><span style="-webkit-app-region: none;">Mariah Duran - </span></strong><span style="-webkit-app-region: none;">“I think our scene is really growing and I’m just skating my best in hopes that it keeps getting bigger. Whether we get first or get last it doesn’t matter as long as we are trying our best.<strong style="-webkit-app-region: none;"><span style="-webkit-app-region: none;">”</span></strong> </span></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fittingly, a day of such intense competition came down to a legendary event in the highly anticipated The <strong>Real Cost Skateboard Big Air Finals</strong>. With a total of five runs to work with, <strong>Mitchie Brusco</strong> finally got his gold in Big Air. After three failed attempts, the fourth time was a charm as Brusco landed his run, a backside 180 kickflip indy into a cab 1080 Mellon on the 27-foot quaterpipe drawing a score of 92.00. Brusco’s roommate <strong>Clay Kreiner</strong> snuck into second place on his final attempt with a backside 720 indy into a supersized alley-oop varial 540 for a score of 91.00 while 17-year-old <strong>Trey Wood</strong> took home his first X Games medal with a bronze.</div><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Mitchie Brusco</strong> - “I knew as soon as I took off it was different. I didn’t know if it was good different or bad different... but it was different!” <br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Skateboard Big Air Final</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1</strong>. Mitchie Brusco, 92.00 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2</strong>. Clay Kreiner, 91.00 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3</strong>. Trey Wood, 90.00 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4</strong>. Robyn Gomes, 87.00 (BRA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5</strong>. Tom Schaar, 85.00 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>6</strong>. Jake Brown, 77.33 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>7</strong>. Toby Ryan, 66.00 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>8</strong>. Italo Penarrubia, 43.66 (BRA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>9</strong>. Elliot Sloan, 40.33 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>10</strong>. Edgard Pereira, 34.33 (BRA) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Toyota Men’s Skateboard Park Final</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1</strong>. Alex Sorgente, 89.00 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2</strong>. Tristan Ronnie, 87.66 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3</strong>. Tom Schaar, 85.33 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4</strong>. Pedro Barros, 82.00 (BRA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5</strong>. Clay Kreiner, 80.33 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>6</strong>. Trey Wood, 78.66 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>7</strong>. Jagger Eaton, 74.33 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>8</strong>. Heimana Reynolds, 71.66 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>9</strong>. Cory Juneau, 65.33 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>10</strong>. Keegan Palmer, 63.00 (AUS)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>11</strong>. Chris Russell, 62.33 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>12</strong>. Oskar Rozenberg, 57.33 (SWE)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>SoFi Women’s Skateboard Street Final</strong> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1</strong>. Mariah Duran, 87.66 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2</strong>. Aori Nishimura, 86.00 (JPN)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3</strong>. Alexis Sablone, 84.00 (USA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4</strong>. Leticia Bufoni, 83.00 (BRA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5</strong>. Pamela Rosa, 82.00 (BRA)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>6</strong>. Nanaka Fujisawa, 80.00 (JPN)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>7</strong>. Julia Brueckler, 70.00 (AUS)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>8</strong>. Lacy Baker, 62.66 (USA)</div>