Recap: Final day of X Games 16

8:48 p.m. — It’s called speed and style, but the speed hardly mattered — excepted when it counted most.

In the last event of the 2010 X Games, motocross riders combined two disciplines, racing and tricks, to put on a show at Staples Center.

In the gold medal race, Nate Adams scored 89.33 style points, beating out Travis Pastrana’s 88.00. But Pastrana finished 5.97 seconds ahead of Adams in the race, giving him a total score of 93.97 and the gold medal in the moto X speed & style event.

Aside from the final, speed did not determine a single race. The points for style accounted for up to 90 points of a rider’s score, while speed, scored by the differential of seconds in a four-lap race, never gave a rider more than six points. The only exception was Adams’ semifinal defeat of Jeremy Stenberg, who fell from his bike and did not finish the race. The fluke gave Adams a speed score of well over 700.

Of course, Adams’ style points would have carried him through without the speed bonus. Adams scored an 88, while Stenberg’s short run earned him 27 points. Style points were given for tricks the riders did off of a ramp, as well as for general flare during the race.

Stenberg topped Ronnie Faisst for the bronze medal after Faisst’s bike stalled on the third lap of the race.

— Laura Myers

7:39 p.m. — Pedro Barros scored a gold medal in skateboard park at his first appearance as a pro in the X Games.

The 15-year-old, who won gold in skateboard vert as an amateur last year, finished five points ahead of veteran vert skateboarder Andy MacDonald, who scored an 81. Kevin Kowalski used a clean first run to slide to finish third and win his first X Games medal.

Curran Caples challenged Kowalski for bronze but came up five points short for fourth. Bucky Lasek finished fifth.

Barros and MacDonald were first and second, respectively, after the elimination round.

Every rider used the course in different ways, adding originality by utilizing the often overlooked hand rails in the middle of the concrete setting.

— DeAntae Prince

4:48 p.m. — The skateboard park legends final had riders who have been on the skating scene for the past 30 years.

After winning gold in the competition, Christian Hasoi, a small rider with a surfing style, talked about the changes he has seen in skateboarding. He first weighed in on how awards have changed over the years.

“Medals were something that the Olympics had,” Hasoi said.

“We had ribbons,” chimed in Steve Caballero, the bronze winner.

“We did have those trophies from the early ‘70s that were terrible,” silver winner Chris Miller said. “They were so funny.”

Each of the riders performed on a skateboard park course they said was a throwback to days of drained pools and backyard sessions.

Hasoi called X Games the “Super Bowl of skating” and said he never dreamed something like this would revolve around the sport.

Each of the skateboarders looked to be in good shape and ran the course quickly and seamlessly. They took few falls and went for less big tricks than younger skateboarders.

That sense of conservatism is what has them still going today, Hasoi said.

“I think we all kind of paced ourselves,” he said.

Miller started a skateboard business and said retired from skateboarding at 21 because he though “I can’t last as an athlete.”

“There were no examples of people continuing to skate even in their 30s,” Miller said.

Caballero said he’ll continue to skateboard into the future.

“I’m just going to leave it up to the lord,” he said. “I’m just going to keep pushing it and trying to be safe at the same time.”

— DeAntae Prince

3:45 p.m. — Alexis Sablone won gold in the women’s skateboarding street final after a near-flawless run on the obstacle-laden course gave her a score of 86.00.

“I was really nervous about all this,” Sablone said. “The teacup in the back, that’s what I was dreading. … Ramps aren’t my strongest point. Sometimes it works out. It was challenging, but it was good.”

The run came minutes after 17-year-old Leticia Bufoni scored an 85.66 to take the lead; Bufoni’s score ultimately gave her the silver medal.

Marisa Dal Santo, the 2009 women’s street champion, sneaked into third place with her last run of the 18-minute jam session, in which she scored an 83.00.

The final began with 10 women, five of whom advanced to compete for medals. Sablone also had the highest score in the first round with an 87.00.

— Laura Myers

1:05 p.m. — Garrett Reynolds won his third consecutive BMX street gold medal with a 96.33.

“I didn’t think I’d be able to do it, honestly,” Reynolds said. “Brian [Kachinsky] and [Dennis] Enarson were killing it all day in practice.”

Reynolds had already secured the win, but added a victory lap and a six-point cushion between himself and Enarson, the silver medalist. Enarson also won silver in bmx park.

Brian Kachinsky won bronze in his third appearance at X Games. In a statement that could be honest or self-deprecating, he said he knows he “not the best rider out there.” Reynolds and Enarson disagreed and booed Kachinsky’s comments.

Reynolds had plenty of competition in the event that brought 10 riders from a previous elimination round, narrowed them to five and named three leaders.

No final score in the finals was below 85. Reynolds rose as the competition did.

Enarson took the lead when he scored a 90. Reynolds quickly rebutted with a 92.66 of his own and produced a final run to wow judges and the crowd.

A redhead with a beanie glued to his head, Enarson had tire troubles cloud both days of bmx street. He popped an innertube in the elimination round and was stalled in the final after another tire sounded off.

“I was like, ‘Sweet, I’m going to miss like three of my runs,’” he said. “But my friends had it covered.”

Another team’s manager came over with a new tire and Enarson rode it to silver. He said it worked well, but had a hard time getting past the first white tire he has ever rode in competition.

“That white tire was pretty ridiculous,” he said.

— DeAntae Prince