Kelly Clark wins WX Tignes SuperPipe

TIGNES, France -- After two years of hearing the words "Kelly Clark wins [insert snowboard contest name here]" over and over again, it would be easy to suspect that the reason she keeps winning, as she did here again Wednesday night, is that the women she's riding against maybe just aren't that good. This would be such an egregiously false assumption, however, that it could only be called "dead wrong."

It is truly impressive to watch Clark ride. She goes bigger out of the pipe than any other woman, and not only that, but she does it on her 1080. Her winning run scored a full 10 points above the competition and deserved it. But Clark's competition, although distanced on the scoreboard Wednesday night, is fierce. It is really just a matter of time before they end her winning streak or push her to up the ante even higher.

Take, for example, Elena Hight, who took silver in the Winter X Tignes pipe. Just last week she bested Clark at the U.S. Open with solid back-to-back 900s that she appears to have now on lock. Her run Wednesday had back-to-back 7s, back-to-back 9s and an alley-oop rodeo. Her run was smooth, her tricks were solid, and she proved that her win last week was absolutely not a fluke.