Read more X Games Aspen is a wrap. Check out the highlights from three days of competition at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado. Need a refresher on three days of snowboarding action from X Games Aspen ?
Need a refresher on three days of freeskiing action from X Games Aspen ? At just 17 years old, Dusty Henricksen became the first snowboarder to win two gold medals in his rookie appearance at X Games. Here, Dusty recounts his first Slopestyle experience for Xplained. The X Games consists of two versions: a summer competition and a winter competition. The first summer games were held in Providence and Newport, Rhode Island, in The winter competition was added two years later, at Big Bear Lake, California.
Currently, the winter games are always held in Aspen, Colorado, and the summer games are always held in Los Angeles, California. X Games events can vary from year to year, but generally consist of skiing , snowboarding , BMX biking, and skateboarding. Many X Games athletes compete in world championships. For example, Sarah Burke, from Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, has been named one of the best freestyle skiers in the world.
She is a three-time X Games gold medalist. Other X Games athletes represent their countries in the Olympics.
Shaun White, who has won Olympic gold medals in snowboarding, is also an X Games athlete. White, a native of Southern California, has won X Games medals in both snowboarding at the winter games and skateboarding at the summer games.
Winter Games The Winter X Games is held in a snowy mountain environment and features winter sports such as snowboarding, skiing, and snowmobiling. Competitors in those sports face off in a variety of different ways. In Skier-X also called ski cross and Snowboarder-X also called boardercross , athletes do not race individually, the way they do in most sports competitions. Athletes in Skier-X and Snowboarder-X race head-to-head, going down the mountain four—at—a time.
The courses feature a variety of terrain, including jumps, moguls, and bank turns. In a Winter X Games event called slopestyle , skiers or snowboarders individually choose their own route through a course with many of the same features and obstacle s as Skier-X and Snowboarder-X.
But instead of trying to get down the course as fast as possible, they use the features to perform tricks and are judged on how well they perform them. There are also competitions to see which athlete can perform the best trick or get the most air , or height, off a jump. Travis Rice, who learned to ski near his home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is a snowboarder who competes in slopestyle events. The X Games snowmobiling competitions include Snocross , in which competitors race on snowmobiles around a track with steep jumps and obstacles.
They compete for medals and prize money for the 20th straight year! Various competitions exist for ski, snowboard and snowmobile. The following two years took place in Crested Butte. Two years after were in Mount Snow, VT. Register for free Already a member? More information. Other statistics on the topic. Professional Sports Europe: number of people who ski as of , by country. Professional Sports Age distribution of snow sport vacationers in the UK David Lange.
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