X GAMES NOTES: Sheckler uses 'teacup' to win more X Games bling

LOS ANGELES (AP) - It was a delightful little tea party for Ryan Sheckler in his return to the X Games medal stand.

The skateboarder and MTV reality star made the most of the "teacup" feature of the games' street course in a nearly flawless final run Saturday to win his third gold medal in Skateboard Street.

Sheckler's tricks included an alley-oop frontside transfer from one half of the teacup to the other, a frontside air on the teacup and a cab back lip.

Sporting bright bling in his ears, Sheckler went trick-for-trick in the final jam session with Nyjah Huston, who won his second straight silver with a performance that would have meant gold in most years.

"It was a crazy contest to be back," said Sheckler, who missed the 2009 street final after rolling his ankle and won his first gold at age 13. "I got hurt last year and wanted to get back this year, and this definitely exceeded my expectations."

Sheckler, of San Clemente, Calif., scored a 92.66. Huston, of Huntington Beach, had a 91.33. Canadian Ryan Decenzo took the bronze with an even 90.

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WRONG-WAY DEEGAN: Tanner Foust had to bash with Brian Deegan to win one rally car gold medal, but Deegan pretty much handed him the other one.

Foust won the inaugural X Games SuperRally race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the new event that features wild, four-way competition in the style of European Rallycross.

He and Rockstar teammate Deegan tried to take the first turn at the same time in the SuperRally final, and Foust scraped past Deegan to take a lead he never gave up.

"We were side-by-side, he gave me just one car width, and I had to take it," said Foust, who rode on the Rallycross circuit to prepare for the event. "Oh my god that was fun. It's basically like the coolest video game ever."

Deegan hung on to win his second silver of the day. Earlier in the original rally car event, he took a wrong turn that brought out the red flag and gave the automatic win to Foust.

Foust wasn't entirely happy that win came so easily.

"To be honest, I wanted to do it again," Foust said. "Brian, what do you say?"

Deegan, a longtime motocross star and founder of the Metal Mulisha team, only recently switched to rally cars and was seeded 11th in the competition.

His upset climb to the final round was quickly wasted with the wrong turn.

Many drivers struggled to understand the new layout, and they were missing a key tool.

The co-drivers who usually serve as navigators were taken out of the cars this year and replaced by reporters for the ESPN telecast.

"It was pretty tricky to figure out," Foust said. "You make your own little cloud of dust, it's so hard to find your way."

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GOLD NOT BRUISES: Chad Kagy was the last man standing in a bruising BMX Big Air competition that knocked out four-time Big Air gold medalist Kevin Robinson.

Kagy avoided the nasty crashes of Robinson, Morgan Wade and Anthony Napolitan to take the X Games gold.

Kagy took control from the start, doing a backflip tail whip over the 70-foot gap and a perfectly executed flip whip on the quarter-pipe to post a score of 91.66 that no one could approach for the rest of the competition.

"It was nice to be able to go up and land the first run," Kagy said. "It's a good motivation boost."

Robinson, whose often-dislocated shoulder popped out twice during Friday's BMX vert final, was expected to take it easy if he competed at all Saturday, but did a no-handed backflip over the mega ramp gap then slammed hard after over-rotating his flair on the quarter-pipe.

He was helped off the ramp by medics and sat out his last two runs.

Kagy was followed by a pair of Australians: Steve McCann won silver and X Games rookie Andy Buckworth took bronze.