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Heath Frisbee celebrates after pulling off record at the Winter X Games. | Courtesy of tribmedia.sltrip.com

You probably have no idea, do you? You so called “sports fan.”

The Super Bowl build up was only thing that mattered in your eyes this weekend.

Unfortunately for you, the Winter X Games in Aspen, Col. that aired from Jan. 26 through Jan. 29, were not part of your watched sports entertainment as a result.

Eli Manning’s answers to reporter’s questions were worth more of your TV watching time than the gracious, gravity-defying displays.

Some of the truest athletes in the world, across all sports, participate in the Winter X Games, such as Shaun “The Flying Tomato” White.

White entered the tournament with an existing left-ankle injury before participating in any of his events. To train for his events, with the injured ankle, he took to his snowboard. With the X Games being the most extreme sporting events, hence “X” games, it should be no surprise that he aggravated his injury more than it already was.

Still cleared to ride, White took to his snowboard the morning before his Snowboard Slopestyle for more practice. During which, the White declared the injury to be too severe for competition in the later event, thus he withdrew.

As the reigning four-time Snowboard Superpipe champion, White did not sit out of a particular event of his that still remained.

The competition’s final evening event, the Snowboard Superpipe.

Amidst all the 2012 Winter X Games storylines, the what was thought to be impossible, was possible and was achieved.

Not the first snowmobile front flip, that’s right, front flip, landed by Heath Frisby, the first Winter X Big Air triple cork tricks, landed by both Mark McMorris and Torstein Horgmo or even Colten Moore, the 22-year-old snowmobilier from Texas, who crashed during his Freestyle run and came back to his first Winter X gold. No.

Shaun White totaled the first Winter X Games perfect score to win the Snowboard Superpipe for the fifth time in a row. All with a sprained ankle.

It is all these things, the death defying circus stunts named with kitchen utensil jargon to the ability to fight through injury and be the best performer possible while doing so.

Don’t ever be opposed to watching the X Games, winter or snow, for you will see the impossible become possible.