{"id":887,"date":"2014-01-23T21:41:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T05:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=887"},"modified":"2025-03-09T20:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:36:50","slug":"a-year-after-his-brothers-death-colten-moore-returns-to-x-games-and-wins-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/23\/a-year-after-his-brothers-death-colten-moore-returns-to-x-games-and-wins-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"A year after his brother\u2019s death, Colten Moore returns to X Games and wins gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASPEN, Colo.\u2014Snowmobiler Colten Moore reached toward the sky and stuck three fingers into the air on one hand and his index finger up on the other.<\/p>\n

That number\u2014\u201d31\u201d\u2014belonged to his brother, Caleb. As far as Colten is concerned, No. 31 picked up another victory Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Returning to Aspen a year after his older brother\u2019s death, Moore rode to victory in the freestyle contest during a touching, emotional evening at what used to be one of the Winter X Games\u2019 most raucous events.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to come out here and dominate for him. Not only ride for him but ride with him,\u201d said Colten, whose score of 91.33 on the first run held up and allowed him to take a stress-free victory lap on his final pass.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI knew he was with me all night and just helping me be smooth and push hard. To come here and get gold for him, I couldn\u2019t ask for anything more.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 60 family and friends, many from the Moores\u2019 hometown of Krum, Texas, were on hand to watch Colten perform on a clear, crisp winter night in Colorado. They waved Texas flags and hollered whenever he landed tricks.<\/p>\n

Caleb died last Jan. 31 from injuries he sustained in a crash during the snowmobile competition. Safety measures were tightened, and ESPN, which runs the X Games, decided to stick with the event.<\/p>\n

After some soul searching, Colten also decided he\u2019d return, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just knew he\u2019d be riding with me every time I go ride,\u201d Colten said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s there with me and, if I tried to quit and he could, he would smack me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s father, Wade, watched with tears in his eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough. Harder to watch this year,\u201d Wade said. \u201cBut his confidence is up. He just gets better and better. He just wanted to ride. That\u2019s what he likes doing. He has fun doing it. That\u2019s what him and his brother did. They\u2019re still doing it together. I promise they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

The night before the race, Colten said everywhere he looks at Winter X, he sees little reminders of his older brother.<\/p>\n

Some are subtle\u2014Caleb\u2019s number, 31, on a parking lot sign or a building\u2014and some are heartfelt\u2014Texas-shaped stickers plastered on windows and benches that read, \u201cRide in Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Returning to this venue a year after his brother\u2019s death hasn\u2019t been difficult for Colten.<\/p>\n

No, it\u2019s actually beneficial, because here, riding his snowmobile, he feels closest to Caleb.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m riding better than I\u2019ve ridden in a long time,\u201d said Colten, who earned his second gold medal in the event. \u201cI know it\u2019s him helping me out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caleb crashed on the night of Jan. 24 while attempting a backflip. His machine caught the lip of the landing area, sending him flying over the handlebars. The 450-pound sled rolled over him.<\/p>\n

Later that evening, Colten wiped out, too, separating his pelvis.<\/p>\n

At first, it appeared Colten might have sustained the more serious injury, especially since Caleb walked off with help from his father after suffering a concussion.<\/p>\n

Soon after, Caleb\u2019s condition worsened. He developed bleeding around his heart and was flown to a hospital in Grand Junction for surgery. He died a week later from internal injuries he suffered in the crash, the first fatality in X Games history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just continue to push on,\u201d the 24-year-old Colten said.<\/p>\n

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After taking his victory lap Thursday night, Colten drove his snowmobile to the peak of a slope and parked it. He climbed off and looked up toward the sky.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking about my brother,\u201d he explained. \u201cTo come here, do what we always came here to do\u2014dominate\u2014I know he would be super pumped.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colten hardly held back on his winning tricks, getting huge air on every pass. It\u2019s a run he knew his brother would\u2019ve liked.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then, he\u2019d also go out there and try to beat me,\u201d Colten said.<\/p>\n

His mom, Michele, could hardly hold back tears as she posed next to her son for pictures in the victory celebration.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaleb was there with him every step of the way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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