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Athletes to observe at X Games Aspen 2026

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The USA’s Olympic slopestyle champion Alex Hall is ready to compete in Big Air, slopestyle and Knuckle Huck in Aspen, with the six-time X Games winner getting into the Games because the defending Knuckle Huck champion.

Three-time Olympic slopestyle medalist Nick Goepper (USA) returns to the superpipe at this 12 months’s X Games, an occasion through which he’s the defending champion.

New Zealand’s Luca Harrington, the freeski Big Air world champion, will goal to defend his X Games slopestyle title and add to the Big Air silver he received in 2025.

Canada’s two-time Olympian Megan Oldham has reached the X Games podium seven instances in slopestyle and Big Air. She made historical past in 2023, touchdown the first-ever triple cork in girls’s freestyle snowboarding.

Zoe Atkin, Britain’s Beijing 2022 halfpipe Olympian and 2025 world champion, will look so as to add a second X Games title to her assortment in Aspen.

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Australia’s two-time Olympic halfpipe medalist (silver and bronze) and seven-time X Games champion, Scotty James, is aiming for a fifth consecutive Aspen X Games victory following a 3rd straight LAAX Open win.

Olympic slopestyle gold medalist and Big Air silver medallist Zoi Sadowski Synnott is chasing a sixth X Games  gold medal.

Austria’s Anna Gasser, a two-time Olympic Big Air gold medalist and eight-time X Games podium finisher, is coming back from an low season shoulder harm. She took third in slopestyle on the 2026 Laax Open and is wanting so as to add to her 4 X Games Big Air victories.

PyeongChang 2018 slopestyle gold medalist Red Gerard returns to defend his back-to-back slopestyle titles, aiming to make it three in a row.