X games injury moore

The snowmobile landed on its skis and raced into the crowd watching on the sidelines. No one was seriously injured. Both Moore brothers are decorated Winter X Games veterans, who made their debut in competitive snowmobiling in in Aspen after years of racing ATVs.

Caleb, who has four Winter X Games medals, took home the bronze medal in Snowmobile Freestyle at last year's games, and stood next to brother Colten on the podium, who had snagged gold. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Top Stories. Thousands of federal inmates to be released under law Jan 13, AM. Will it impact racial wealth gap?

On Thursday, a week after the accident, Moore died. The combination of quirky, hair-raising events that make up the X Games were once pushed to the distant margins of televised sports. But in recent years, some have been added to both Summer and Winter Olympic slates. Moore's injury was one of several at this year's Winter X Games.

His younger brother, Colten, suffered a separated pelvis in the same event. Freestyle skier Rose Battersby, a New Zealander, incurred a spinal fracture, and Icelandic snowboarder Halldor Helgason suffered a concussion. Sebastian Landry, a filmmaker who specialized in snowmobile features, told the New York Times last year that injuries in the sport made him lose interest in filming.

That, plus being raised with the motor-head mentality where it's all or nothing. Video Credit- Travis with Rockstar Energy. Two-time Snowmobile Freestyle gold medalist Colten Moore was injured during the performance of the double backflip on a snowmobile at Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. Colten suffered a dislocated T vertebra which bruised his spinal cord. Just after the crash, he was flown to Denver from Aspen and underwent surgery to repair the dislocation.

Thankfully, Colten has already been up and walking with the help of his care team. Unfortunately, the costs involved with such a rehabilitation center are extremely high and insurance will not agree to send him to the private facility. Colten has a great team of rehab specialists waiting for him in back in his hometown in Texas.

Your donation matters. Colten remains very positive as well as thankful that he can walk. However, serious complications surrounding the injury are necessary to address and the rehabilitation team is ready to welcome Colten. Please feel free to post a positive message to Colten here and follow his Road 2 Recovery. When posting on social, use HelpColtenRecover so Colten can see all your posts. I had preexisting chronic pain and autoimmune issues on top of recovering from legionaries disease which caused sepsis and 3 other hospital related infections that are common with long term hospital stays.

My advice you have to take the road to recovery one hour one day and one month at a time. They all called me their miracle at the icu, I called the my angels. It was great to meet you at TMS last week Colton….. I will follow your progress and try to stay updated from BC……we can be down, but not out…. Colten is a legendary rider and inimitable personality! A speedy recovery and a happy return home, Colten!

Colten, hang in there brother! Love watching you air it out and will keep you in my thoughts and prayers for a full recovery.