X Games Aspen 2021

Highlights from the world’s most exciting winter sport event

Summary

The X Games will be a crowdless event this year due to the pandemic, but the stoke is still alive and strong. We’re putting together the best highlights from this year so that you can follow along and cheer on these talented athletes from home. Join us on social media, tag your buddies, and bring that atmosphere to the virtual world.

Events include Ski, Snowboard, Snowmobile, and Snow Bike. For most events, the finalist athletes will have a certain amount of time (usually 20-30 min) in a jam session to complete as many tricks as possible. Judges will rank them based on overall impression, style points, difficulty, and variety.

The event will be held January 29 – 31, 2021 at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen Snowmass, Colorado with live coverage on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC.

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Location

The Aspen Snowmass area is unbelievable if you haven’t been there before! With over 350 trails and 4,400 vertical feet of riding across the mountain pass, this place is ready for the beginner and expert alike.

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY Highlights

Jamie Anderson Wins Snowboard Slopestyle for Record 7th XGames Gold

Jamie is the most consistent snowboarder out there. She has been in 17 XGames, metaled in 16 of those, and won gold a record 7 times! The most decorated woman in XGames history. What an achievement, congrats!

Rookie Eileen Gu Wins Gold in SuperPipe & Bronze in Ski Big Air

No rookie has come into SuperPipe and won a gold metal, so she’s bringing it this year making history. Eileen is not only an incredible skier and model, but she’s also a wicked smart 17 yr old who just got early acceptance to Stanford getting a 1580 on her SAT. Congrats girl!

Dusty Henricksen Wins Gold in Snowboard Knuckle Huck

Here’s another youngin’ tearing up the snowboard! Last year Dusty was the first to land a quad cork in competition, which is a holy-crap-how-is-he-spinning-so-many-times trick. And then he shows up at the XGames and takes gold for one of the coolest events, the Knuckle Huck, where they perform tricks over the rounded part of the jump instead of the big kicker, and style points are all the rage.

Nico Porteous Wins Gold in Ski SuperPipe

Bringing out all the stops with TWO back-to-back 1620s… that’s four and a half rotations while being 14ft in the air above a 22ft monster half pipe. Holy moly!

Saturday Highlights

Rookie Eileen Gu Wins 3rd Metal in Ski Slopestyle

Eileen already made history yesterday when she metaled twice as a rookie, but to bring home another gold metal in Slopestyle shows how well-rounded she is as a skier.

Andri Ragettli Takes Gold in Ski Big Air

Winning Bronze last year, Andri did something crazy this year to bring home the bacon. During practice for the XGames, just two days before the finals, he learned triple cork 1800 and brought it our for his first jump. But then he stepped it up even more on his final run pulling a triple cork 1980! Unbelievable!

Chloe Kim Wins Gold in Snowboard SuperPipe

Chloe was ESPY Best Female Action Sports award 2018/2019 and was a 2018 Olympic gold medalist in this event. She didn’t hold back here for the XGames. Very cool to see her get back up again after a fall on her first run and lay it down for the number one spot on her next run.

Sunday Highlights

Nick Goepper Wins Gold in Ski Slopestyle

Veteran Nick Goepper hasn’t been on the podium since 2015, but he brought his best today. Tons of technical pretzels on the rails and he came out strong on the first run and never looked back, keeping first place the whole jam session.

Dusty Henricksen Wins Gold in Snowboard Slopestyle

After blowing everyone away at the Knuckle Huck comp on Friday, this 17 yr old turns up dial on his Slopestyle run. Coming back from behind, he pulls out all the stops on Run 2. The kid was so on fire he was wearing a short-sleeved shirt!

Jamie Anderson Wins Gold in Snowboard Big Air

How does this girl keep taking the top of the podium?! It’s unbelievable how she can pull together two monster tricks to take home another medal making her the most decorated XGames athlete EVER!

Yuto Totsuka Wins Gold in Snowboard SuperPipe

The competition was fierce for this superpipe event and on his 3rd run, the 19 yr old from Japan gave it all he had in a beautiful combination of tricks.

Henrick Wins Gold in Ski Knuckle Huck

Henrick won his 8th XGames gold medal to make history as the most ski golds. It was a tough call on the winner since this is such a fun, creative event, but Henrick really smeared the butter of that knuckle using both the tips and the tails… Super smooooth.

But make sure to check out Jesper Tjader pulling off a CRAZY switch double backflip while also scraping his tips on the knuckle. Such a dangerous move and we can’t believe he pulled this off! I would have given him the gold if it were up to me!