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Monster Energy congratulates its team of BMX, Moto X, and Skateboard athletes on a strong performance on day two of X Games Chiba 2022.
CHIBA, Japan, April 23, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — A huge day at X Games in Japan is in the books! Monster Energy congratulates its team of BMX, Moto X, and Skateboard athletes on a strong performance on day two of X Games Chiba 2022.
In the heated BMX Street final, 23-year-old Australian team rider Lewis Mills clinched the gold medal, bringing the Monster Energy team’s total X Games medal haul on Saturday to five medals (1 gold, 1 silver, and 3 bronze). At the end of day two of X Games Chiba 2022, the team had claimed 7 overall medals across three disciplines in the first edition of the action sports showcase contested in Japan.
Supported by Monster Energy as the official energy drink partner, X Games Chiba 2022 is the 64th edition of X Games. For three action-packed days, ZOZO Marine Stadium on Tokyo Bay is at the center of the action sports world with a capacity for 30,000 spectators.
More than 90 athletes from 18 countries are competing for a total of 30 medals awarded in 10 competitions across three sports. Top-notch athletic performances are supplemented by a cultural festival experience, art installations, and musical performances by the likes of Japanese rock band Man with a Mission, who also supplied the official theme song for X Games Chiba 2022.
Here’s how the action unfolded for team Monster Energy on day one of X Games Chiba 2022:
BMX Street: Monster Energy’s Lewis Mills Takes Home Spectacular Victory
Under the spotlights at ZOZO Marine Stadium, the Japanese crowd was treated to the world’s most progressive urban riding in the BMX Street final on Saturday night. The eight finalists hailed from Australia, Great Britain, Nigeriaand the United States.
The progressive street course, designed in the style of origami artwork to celebrate the host country, provided a broad selection of rails, banks, kickers, and stair sets. As the final session got underway, the rider to beat was defending gold medalist Garrett Reynolds from the United States with a total of 14 X Games gold medals under his belt.
Monster Energy’s Lewis Mills from Terrey Hills, Australiadropped in as a wildcard and they youngest rider in the field. The 23-year-old has emerged as a podium threat on the international circuit, but only claimed one X Games medal in four appearances, silver in BMX Street at Sydney 2018.
That was about to change. In the 30-minute jam session, Mills opened his run with a technical barspin to double peg grind to manual to toothpick hanger out. He then finessed a tailwhip over the hip, bar spin on the quarter pipe extension, truck driver air through the origami swan kicker, double peg grind up the big rail to hardway 360 out, peg grind bar spin out, and crooked grind to 180.
But with Scottish team rider Alex Donnachie from Perthshire taking over the top spot, Mills needed to raise…
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