Saturday recap from X Games Austin
— -- AUSTIN, Texas -- Sweltering temperatures and heavy winds on Saturday didn't stop the athletes from throwing down on Day 3 at X Games Austin, including a high-speed RallyCross race and repeat wins in Skateboard Park, Moto X Speed & Style and BMX Dirt.
Moto X Freestyle, originally scheduled for Saturday night, was postponed to Sunday afternoon due to the winds. But Saturday night's GoPro BMX Big Air riders decided to take to the MegaRamp despite the wind, insisting, due to the massive number of fans in attendance, that the show must go on.
Colton Satterfield nabbed his first X Games gold medal in BMX Big Air on Saturday, beating out silver medalist Morgan Wade -- a Texas native and the local favorite -- and bronze medalist James Foster.
Satterfield was among the athletes in a riders' meeting arguing to run the contest despite the wind, and put on a show for one of the largest crowds ever assembled for a BMX Big Air event.
"This contest wasn't even going to happen and it only happened because all these people are going absolutely insane," Satterfield said, gesturing toward the throng of spectators watching from a hill next to the MegaRamp.
Satterfield's winning run featured a no-handed corked 720 over the gap to triple tailwhip on the quarterpipe, taking the lead in his second of three runs with a score of 90.66.
"Being able to land that run was unbelievable to me," he said. "It was the craziest feeling and I think it took about 20 seconds of everybody shaking me just now to realize what happened. ... Morgan is insane, and everyone rode tonight in seriously the hardest conditions."
Wade -- the defending X Games Los Angeles 2013 Big Air champion, who rode with a Texas flag pinned to the back of his shirt -- landed a Superman backflip over the gap and a double tailwhip on the quarterpipe in his first run.
Wade had hoped to challenge Kevin Robinson's quarterpipe high-air record, but the windy conditions rendered that impossible.
James Foster won bronze with a backflip tailwhip over the gap to triple downside whip -- his first time landing the trick -- on the quarterpipe.
Established Big Air favorites Steve McCann and Chad Kagy failed to medal.
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