It all came down to a strategic move for Venezuela's Daniel Dhers, and the move paid off big time as sitting out one run gave Dhers enough energy to pull out all the stops in his BMX Freestyle Park run and take back-to-back gold medals in the discipline at X Games. "Since I got here, I knew that heat was going to play a big, big factor," said
Dhers.
"So I said to myself that I could do four runs and two of them would have to be half because I would be so exhausted or do two, take a breather and just do a last one hard. It could have gone either way because these guys are amazing. I had to gamble and do it the old Ryan Nyquist way, where he just throws it down and hopes for the best. I am very happy that it worked." The medal marked
Dhers' fourth career gold in BMX Freestyle Park at X Games, and was won by a hair in a tiebreaker that counted the person with the highest third score as winner.
San Diego, Calif. Native
Dennis Enarson made his presence
known in the BMX Freestyle Park from the get-go as he stomped his two high scores right out of the gate in runs one and two.
"I was most psyched on landing the double whip pocket air. I wasn't planning on doing it, but I got it though and I'm psyched," Enarson said.
Scotty Cranmer of Jackson, N.J. finished third for the bronze medal.
X Games 17: BMX Freestyle Park Final Results Final standings from the BMX Freestyle Park event held at The Event Deck at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, Calif. on July 30, 2011.
Park Final results:
1. Daniel Dhers 10 Caracas, Venezuela 81.00
2. Dennis Enarson 12 San Diego, Calif. 81.00*
3. Scotty Cranmer 8 Jackson, N.J. 72.00
4. Chase Hawk 13 Austin, Texas 58.00
5. Gary Young 20 San Diego, Calif. 52.00
*Tie was broken by determining which athlete had the next highest run score.