Blazusiak Takes Home Gold in Enduro X Debut

Blazusiak Takes Home Gold in Inaugural Enduro X Debut

Poland’s Taddy Blazusiak made one heck of a grand entrance to his first X Games appearance Sunday, helping close out the games with a gold medal in Moto X Enduro X, the newest sport at X Games 17.

‘You just try to push yourself to the limit and that’s what I tried to do and you had to make a decision in the split of a second,’ Blazusiak said. ‘I’m really happy, I had a steady start, I wasn’t going over my head and I just worked my way through.’

The debut of Enduro X was nothing short of incredibly exciting with riders racing 10 laps around a course littered with boulder fields, a pond, wood logs and bank turns.

Mike Brown, who also made his first appearance on the X Games scene this year, kept the heat on Blazusiak, finishing just 14 seconds behind the winner for the silver medal.

‘It’s my first time at X Games and it was great. It’s fun to watch and there’s always something going on in this sport. I hope we get to come back again next year and put on a good show for everyone,’ Brown said.

A two-time champion in the World Off Road Championships, Justin Soule was able to add more moto hardware to his collection with his third-place-finish.

‘This is awesome because everyone gets to see what Enduro X is. Everyone knows what BMX and skateboarding is and now they know Enduro X so it’s cool and it’s an honor to be a part of this,’ Soule said.

The Enduro X events capped off four days of X Games 17 competition that garnered an attendance of 141,500 people in the heart of downtown Los Angeles’ L.A. LIVE, beating last year’s attendance of 138,525.

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     Name    Bib No.    Hometown    Time
1.    Taddy Blazusiak    111    Krakow, Poland    9:06.439
2.    Mike Brown            311    Bluff City, Tenn.    9:20.930
3.    Justin Soule                 3    Victorville, Calif.    9:33.448
4.    Joakim Ljunggren    69    Karlskoga, Sweden    9:41.829
5.    Geoff Aaron       2    Redding, Conn.    9:48.979
6.    Destry Abbott    14    Phoenix, Ariz.    9:52.518
7.    Kurt Caselli               66    Palmdale, Calif.    11:22.279
8.    Cody Webb              247    Santa Cruz, Calif.    11:28.735
9.    Taylor Robert       33    Scottsdale, Ariz.    11:54.467
10.    Kevin Rookstool       8    Klamath Falls, Ore.    11:59.693