Danny Davis is in the mix to make his first Olympic Team, four years after an all-terrain vehicle accident kept him from the Vancouver Games.
Davis won the third of five Olympic selection events with 95.20 points in his first of two runs in Mammoth Mountain, Calif., on Friday. Two-time Olympic champion Shaun White sat out the contest after crashing and clinching an Olympic berth in slopestyle Thursday.
Davis edged Taylor Gold by 1.2 points. Matt Ladley was third.
On Jan. 6, 2010, Davis beat White en route to what looked like an Olympic spot. But in the early morning hours of Jan. 17, he drunkenly rode an ATV with friends into a metal fence, breaking his third lumbar vertebrae and shattering his pelvis.
Kelly Clark won the women’s event with 95 points, making her three for three in Olympic selection events. She had already clinched an Olympic berth.
Chloe Kim, who at 13 is too young for the Olympics, was second to Clark for her second podium in three selection events.
2006 Olympic champion Hannah Teter was third, a crucial result for her. Teter earned her first top-four finish in a selection events, joining the race for one of two automatic Olympic spots after Clark.
She is behind Arielle Gold, 2006 Olympic silver medalist Gretchen Bleiler and Kaitlyn Farrington in the standings.
The fourth Olympic selection event is later Friday. The fifth is Sunday, after which the Olympic Team will be named.
Here are the Olympic selection standings:
Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe — Three automatic Olympic spots
1. Greg Bretz — 1,800
1. Taylor Gold — 1,800
3. Danny Davis -- 1,450
4. Ben Ferguson — 1,050
5. Louie Vito — 1,000
6. Matt Ladley -- 890
7. Shaun White — 800
Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe – Three automatic Olympic spots
1. Kelly Clark — 2,000 (clinched Olympic berth)
2. Arielle Gold — 1,400
3. Gretchen Bleiler — 1,050
4. Kaitlyn Farrington -- 1,000
5. Hannah Teter -- 960
