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X Games to Kick Off Elite U.S. Park & Pipe Competition

By Andrew Gauthier
December, 15 2020
Colby Aspen
Colby Stevenson skiing his way to gold at the 2020 X Games in Aspen, Colo. (ESPN Images - Eric Lars Bakke)

ESPN announced today that X Games Aspen 2021 will return to Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen Snowmass, Colo., for the 20th-consecutive year Jan. 29-31, marking the first elite North American snowboard and freeski event of the season.

The list of invited athletes was nothing short of impressive including U.S. riders and Olympic gold medalists Chloe Kim, Jamie Anderson, Shaun White, and Red Gerard. The roster continues to get deeper with the freeskiers including back-to-back FIS World Champion Aaron Blunck; Olympic medalists Alex Ferreira, Nick Goepper,  David Wise; as well as 2019-20 X Games medalists Alex Hall, Colby Stevenson, and Maggie Voisin. 

X Games Aspen 2021 will feature men’s and women’s freeski and snowboard competitions in the disciplines of superpipe, slopestyle, big air, and men’s knuckle huck. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, X Games Aspen 2021 will be closed to the public and produced with comprehensive COVID-19 risk mitigation protocols in place for participants and staff.

Following X Games, U.S. Snowboard and Freeski Team athletes are set to continue competition in the United States from Feb. 3-6 at the Land Rover U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain, Calif. The famed Unbound Terrain Park will host both slopestyle and halfpipe competition, pending local and state approvals. Meanwhile, U.S. Freestyle Ski Team athletes will take on the world-class moguls and aerials venues at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah, for the 2021 Intermountain Healthcare Freestyle International planned for Feb. 4-6 pending local and state approvals.
 

Read The Full Press Release at ESPNPressRoom.com

Invited U.S Freeski Athletes 

  • Aaron Blunck

  • Alex Ferreira

  • Nick Goepper

  • Alex Hall

  • Birk Irving

  • Colby Stevenson

  • Maggie Voisin

  • David Wise

  • Quinn Wolferman

Invited U.S. Snowboard Athletes 

  • Sonora Alba

  • Jamie Anderson

  • Red Gerard

  • Arielle Gold

  • Dusty Henricksen

  • Chloe Kim

  • Hailey Langland

  • Julia Marino

  • Maddie Mastro

  • Toby Miller

  • Zeb Powell

  • Shaun White

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