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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=http:\\/\\/www.snowboarding-online.com\\/video\\/granbaw_021001.html&gt;Click here for a Quicktime clip of the women&amp;#8217;s finals&lt;\\/a&gt;.&lt;P&gt;Jaime Macleod won the women&amp;#8217;s Yahoo! Sports Outdoors Big Air and Style and $2,500 at Mammoth Mountain, California today. The event was a specialty invite addition to the Chevy Truck U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix  that was supposed to take place all weekend. However, due to a big storm, the halfpipe qualifying and finals were moved to Thursday, and the boardercross event was going to take place today, but was eventually canceled. &lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The unique big-air event consisted of an hour-and-a-half jam session where riders could take as many runs as they wanted, but unfortunately they had to wait for the TV cameras to get ready and the jam didn&amp;#8217;t progress as fast as many wanted. But most still got in at least five or six jumps, and the riding definitely improved as they got the hip-to-quarterpipe combination wired. &lt;P&gt;For Macleod, she had to overcome howling wins and blowing snow making the big-air hip to quarterpipe setup a little bit more challenging than it could have been. But she&amp;#8217;s definitely on a roll, coming off an X Games Slopestyle win the week before at Mount Snow, Vermont. &amp;#8220;I like hips, they&amp;#8217;re really fun,&amp;#8221; she said. &amp;#8220;Backside hits are the best because methods are my most favorite trick.&amp;#8221;&lt;P&gt;However, she skipped the powder morning. &amp;#8220;The retarded guy I&amp;#8217;m staying with, Carter Olcott, woke me up at 7:00 a.m., was still drunk, and just started yelling, so I just went back to bed and slept in.&amp;#8221;&lt;P&gt;In second place was Catherine Nieves who was going huge off the two jumps and impressing everyone with her big, clean style that included a mute grab and stylish quarterpipe launch.&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;She said the conditions didn&amp;#8217;t really hinder her. &amp;#8220;When I was in a wind storm it was pretty white, but overall it wasn&amp;#8217;t too bad. There were some pauses. The TV made it tough because we had to wait for it. We should have gotten a bunch more runs.&amp;#8221; She&amp;#8217;s looking forward to the freeriding coming up this week. &amp;#8220;There&amp;#8217;s going to be tons of snow here in a couple of days, so there&amp;#8217;ll be lots to get.&amp;#8221;&lt;P&gt;Marni Yamada rounded out the top three, but apparently didn&amp;#8217;t know how well she had done and bailed right before the awards ceremony. &lt;P&gt;WOMEN1. Jaime Macleod (Andover, New Hampshire), 23.6 &lt;br \\/&gt;2. Catherine Nieves (New City, New York), 20.0 &lt;br \\/&gt;3. Marni Yamada (Seattle, Wash.), 19.8 &lt;br \\/&gt;4. Caroline Ehrenstrasser (Austria), 19.3 &lt;br \\/&gt;5. Janna Meyen (Truckee, Calif.), 17.7 &lt;br \\/&gt;6. Kim Stacey (Stratton Mt., Vermont), 16.9 &lt;br \\/&gt;7. Amber Stackhouse (Portland, Maine), 13.6 &lt;br \\/&gt;8. Juanita Platz (Bend, Ore.), 10.7 &lt;br \\/&gt;9. Jonnel Janewicz (Riverside, Calif.), 4.4 &lt;br \\/&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href=http:\\/\\/www.snowboarding-online.com\\/video\\/granbaw_021001.html&gt;Click here for a Quicktime clip of the women&amp;#8217;s finals&lt;\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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