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 ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Steve Fisher accomplished something few people have been able to do lately. Chris Burandt pulled off something no one had done before.
Fisher held off defending and Olympic champion Shaun White to win his second gold medal in snowboard superpipe, and Burandt launched an incredible 110-foot backflip on a snowmobile to take gold Sunday night at the Winter X Games.
White tied Shaun Palmer's record of six gold medals by winning the superpipe and slopestyle at Winter X last year, then went on to take Olympic gold at the Turin Games, setting off a media frenzy — the Tonight Show, Letterman, Conan — of rock star proportions. It continued at this year's Winter X, with White being mobbed by fans everywhere he went, everyone wanting to touch the crossover star during a moshpit-like walk to the superpipe that had White high-fiving fans along the way.
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