LOS ANGELES (AP) — An X Games dominated by age and experience finally got a dose of youth.
Fifteen-year-old rookie Pedro Barros beat 37-year-old veteran Andy MacDonald to win Skateboard Park on Sunday, the X Games’ closing day.
Skateboard Park was designed to allow young skaters versed in street style to compete with the older riders of vert ramps, and this year’s finals went just according to plan, with all the competitors either teens or thirty-somethings.
Ryan Sheckler was the youngest winner of this event at 13 in 2003, but the Brazilian Barros becomes the first athlete who wasn’t born when the X Games began to win a gold.
He used a combination of stunning 540 airs and grinding slides to reach a final score of 86 out of 100. McDonald won silver.
