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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Returning defender Ashley Fiolek (pictured) revved up the field and the audience as she took the gold for the second year in a row in the Moto X Super X Women's Final at The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Last year, she made competition history as the first hearing-impaired medalist.
"Christmas came early this year!" said Fiolek. "This is a great way to get the weekend started, and now I can sit back and enjoy the rest of the X Games."
Silver and bronze came down to the last lap as Tarah Gieger and Sara Price were neck-and-neck the entire race. 2008 gold medalist Gieger edged out Price to take second place.
"I am surprised and excited to finish in the top three," Price said. "I didn't realize that I had medaled until my mechanic told me."
Name/Rank Hometown Score 1. Ashley Fiolek Saint Augustine, Fla. 6:37.142 2. Tarah Gieger Aguadilla, Puerto Rico 6:43.741 3. Sara Price Canyon Lake, Calif. 6:46.211 4. Vicki Golden Temecula, Calif. 6:47.991 5. Jacqueline Strong Sedona, Ariz. 7:09.294 6. Tatum Sik Temecula, Calif. 7:14.675 7. Jolene Van Vugt London, Ontario Canada 7:27.378 8. Sherri Cruse Bakersfield, Calif. 8:49.512 9. Elizabeth Bash Riverside, Calif. 9:26.061 10. Jessica Patterson Tallahassee, Fla. 8:43.322 (DNF)
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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