PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The spectators wear gloves, unless they have a screw loose. The snowboarders wear gloves, or mittens, if we’re being precise.
But one pair of hand warmers are not quite like the others. Unlike fans in the stands or his fellow competitors, Scotty James’ mittens look suspiciously like boxing gloves — which is by design.
The Australian, who took bronze in Tuesday’s men’s halfpipe final, brought real, actual boxing gloves to the 2017 Winter X Games to remind himself that’s he in for a fight. Maybe the same message was sent to his competitors: James won the halfpipe at the event held in Aspen, Colo.