Olympic snowboarding champ Podladtchikov suffers broken nose at X Games
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Iouri Podladtchikov takes a hard fall at the #XGames pic.twitter.com/ndv9MmBL8C
— Jordan Heck (@JordanHeckFF) January 29, 2018
A scary scene unfolded at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo., on Sunday, as reigning Olympic snowboarding champion Iouri Podladtchikov was taken off on a stretcher after he landed hard on the edge of the halfpipe.
The Russian-born snowboarder, known to many as I-Pod, had his head and necked stabilized and was transported to a nearby hospital. He was diagnosed with a broken nose, and scans for brain and neck injuries came back negative, according to The Associated Press.
Podladtchikov won gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics thanks to a well-executed 1440-degree trick. He had been prepping for the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
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