Park City • He grasped the red, white and blue in his right hand, even as he looked on at arguably the greatest freeski halfpipe skier ever having just dropped into the pipe. There was nowhere else to be but where Aaron Blunck found himself Saturday afternoon, in first place, another world championship so close, but at the same time so far away. Because when his friend and U.S. teammate David Wise, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, veered into the Eagle Superpipe as the last competitor, Blunck knew what could happen.
Wise, so often, saves the very best for the very last.