Carrie Sheinberg for EXPN.com

SnoCross superhero Blair Morgan made Winter X history Tuesday night, winning his record fifth gold medal in stunning come-from-behind fashion. Amid the deafening buzzsaw of 12 high-octane engines, Morgan bee-lined his way to victory, working his way up from nine seconds back to overtake Levi LaVallee in the final seconds.

Aye, the luck o’ the Irish. Another gold at the end of the rainbow. Allow me to show ye my lucky charm.

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Jon Maletz for The Aspen Times

No lead is safe when snocross legend Blair Morgan is in the field.

Morgan, the most decorated athlete in the sport, overcame a slow start and an enormous deficit to overtake Levi LaVallee on the final lap of Tuesday’s Winter X Games snocross final. LaVallee took silver and Ross Martin claimed bronze.

The win is Morgan’s unprecedented fifth snocross X Games gold; he trails only Shaun Palmer and Shaun White, who each have six.

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Courtesy of Jamie Anseeuw of BMRT.com, Race Team Manager

The week prior to the Hill City National event again saw the team testing at the home test track. Solid results at Canterbury the week before had the riders and mechanics hungry for even better results.

The Hill City track layout is one of the drivers’ favourites with the 1:10 laps taking you through three uphill, downhill sections including many kickers and moguls. Saturday January 21 was cloudy and fairly cool.

Pro Vet, Earl Reimer was the first team member on the track. Earl repeated his Canterbury performance, sweeping his qualifiers and leading the final wire to wire in convincing fashion.

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January 17, 2006 - After a well deserved Christmas break the team including a recovering Blair Morgan trained and tested hard on the team’s Winnipeg test track preparing for the all important Canterbury Downs race weekend in Shakopee MN January 14-15

Track conditions were great with large technical jumps, tricky tight turns and deep moguls to challenge the riders.

Pro Vet, BMRT rider Earl Reimer swept his qualifiers and proceeded to decimate the field in the final winning easily with a 14 second cushion.

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Vince Castellanos for EXPN.com

Blair Morgan is the best snocross racer in history. There isn’t much debate, but if you’re one of those skeptic-types that needs hard evidence, peep this: of the 160 National races held from 1997 to 2005 seasons, Morgan won 78. The racer holding the closest number of victories to Morgan is Winter X IV SnoCross champ Tucker Hibbert, who clinched 25. No one else has more than 10. He’s also the only person in Winter X history to medal seven straight times in the same discipline, and this month he’ll go for his fifth gold in six years. It won’t be easy, though.
At 30, he’s the oldest racer in the pack, and the kiddies are strong and hungry. Morgan’s also coming back from his third major injury in three years, too (among them, a busted back, thumb, and two broken right legs. Not only did his fibula break through the skin, it went through his motocross boot, to boot). But don’t dare bet against him. They don’t call him Superman for nothing.

If you weren’t an all-sknowing genius, you might mistake Blair Morgan for that other guy. The one with red hair who wears yellow. And has big shoes. Yea, that guy. Really, you might.

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