For the last two years, Jessica Patterson has been so close to getting an X Games gold medal that she could almost taste it. Last year after leading almost every lap in the Moto X Super X, JP narrowly lost to teen phenom Ashley Fiolek.

This year, Jessica’s been hard at work to make sure she brings home the gold. She not only switched to a new team, but also switched from Honda to Yamaha. With the help of her trainer, Ryan Hughes, she arrived at X Games 16 feeling confident.

But once again it was Fiolek who took the gold medal in the women’s super X final with a time of 6:37.14. This is her second gold medal in this event at the X Games.

Fiolek led the entire race, with Jessica Patterson right behind as usual. Patterson nearly overtook Fiolek, but crashed in the fifth lap of the six-lap race. She did not move for several minutes as medics attended to her, but she was able to walk off the course.

Tarah Geiger won the silver medal, and Sara Price took the bronze.

Though she didn’t make the podium, check out this video of the Patterson’s awesome skills.

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