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Kevin Pearce wins Billabong Air & Style 08 (Tue, 5 Feb 2008 Posted at 06:02:35 PM)
U.S. rider Kevin Pearce beats Scotty Lago (USA) and Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) / Celebrated return of the Air & style to its birthplace Innsbruck
Innsbruck, 02 February 2008 – Kevin Pearce has taken the victory at the Billabong Air & Style Innsbruck-Tirol 08 with a Backside 540 Alley Oop at a height of 7.10 metres. In December he had already won the Nokia Air & Style 07 in Munich. The 20-year old prevailed in the Top 8 Super Final with 270 points over Scotty Lago (258 points / Frontside 720 Alley Oop, 6.80 m high) and Peetu Piiroinen (257 points / Backside 540 Tailgrab, 6.5 m high). Jack Mitrani (USA) won the „Swatch Highest Air“ with a height of 8.70 metres.
Air & Style founder Andrew Hourmont: „I am most happy and satisfied with the Air & Style´s return to Innsbruck. To come back with a quarter pipe contest to Bergisel worked perfectly. The riding level was immensely high. I am as thrilled by the riders performance as by the audience and all our partners, who made this fantastic comeback possible.”
The Swatch TTR World Tour Five-Star Event (prize money of €50,000) offered snowboarding at top level. The 24 riders stoked the 12,000 spectators with breathtaking tricks in a quarter pipe measuring 10.20 metres high and 25 metres wide. In best Air & Style manner the top music acts Dynamite Deluxe and Queens of the Stone Age fully rocked the stadium.
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