It wasn ’ t an easy day for Daniel Blanc-Gonnet , but the Notorious DBG kept plugging away for fourth overall .
points at 22 , and also tied on cleans , fives , as well as ones , twos and threes . The seemingly impossible tie wasn ’ t even able to be broken with overall time , due to the oneat-a-time format . While Roper and Niederer discussed the possibility of Indian leg wrestling to settle things , Event Scorekeeper Jared Malmquist resorted to the first point scored in order to award the overall win . This tipped the scales in favor of Roper , who was thrilled to take the point .
Prior to the tiebreaking complication , the event came into the final section of the day on a knife ’ s edge . In the first lap no one had cleaned it , but 16-year-old Will Myers shocked everyone with an incredible ride , and the first zero for the section . Niederer came next with another clean , even overcoming a stall midway through .
“ I knew I could clean it , and then I ended up stalling the bike almost to the exit because I could barely hang on to the bike ,” said Niederer . “ My brother was already yelling in my ear to get that thing going again . Well , we got it going and we got it
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