Basalt’s Maytham, with help from Ferreira, chasing own X Games skiing dream
Before Alex Ferreira threw down a 1440 in the superpipe to win his second straight X Games Aspen gold medal last month, he spent hours training on the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club’s trampoline....
X Faces: A look at the athletes who made up X Games Aspen 2020
Staff photographer Kelsey Brunner was behind the scenes all weekend to document the X Games Aspen 2020 edition. Along the way, The Aspen Times photographer caught the faces of those who made up one of...
X Games Aspen 2020 leads to few incidents in town, crowd of 111k rolled through
There were relatively minor incidents over the X Games weekend, officials report.
X Games Aspen music review: Illenium, Rae Sremmurd, Bazzi and Alesso
The hordes of young music fans at X Games Aspen were the first audience to hear new songs from Rae Sremmurd, an unreleased track from Illenium and the live debut of Bazzi’s hit “I.F.L.Y.” this...
Aspen’s Ferreira repeats as X Games ski pipe champion in showdown with Blunck
Aspen’s love for Alex Ferreira doesn’t go unnoticed by the 25-year-old halfpipe skier. After all, he grew up in Aspen and never hesitates to talk about how much he loves his hometown. And that is...
Sildaru earns X Games slopestyle gold, holds most by any athlete 17 and younger
Kelly Sildaru should just change her last name to Slopestyle. The 17-year-old out of Estonia has won every X Games women’s ski slopestyle competition since 2016, except for 2018, when she didn’t attend the games....
Street star Jesse Paul holds off Sharpe, Thorgren to win snowboard rail jam
Normally, the street specialists would have the advantage over the true slopestyle riders in a rail jam. However, the inaugural snowboard rail jam at X Games Aspen on Sunday wasn’t your typical rail jam, as...
X Games Aspen athletes, Bazzi pay tribute to late basketball star Kobe Bryant
After the news of Kobe Bryant’s death spread across the sports world, some of those connected to X Games Aspen paid their respects to the Los Angeles Lakers star who died Sunday in a helicopter...
Young Zeb Powell blows X Games Aspen minds with crazy knuckle huck win
What a moment Sunday night’s knuckle huck competition was for Zeb Powell and the sport — the passion — of snowboarding. Debuting at X Games Aspen last year, the knuckle huck is a competition that...
X Games athletes differ on the new jam session style judging at Buttermilk
In sports, it’s not often there is a competition without a transparent scoring or timing system. This week at X Games Aspen has been a case study in how competitions can go for athletes and...
X Games Aspen: Bazzi honors Kobe Bryant, plays live debut of ‘I.F.L.Y.’
Taking the X Games music stage hours after news broke of Kobe Bryant’s death in a California helicopter crash, the R&B singer Bazzi honored the NBA legend, calling him “one of my heroes growing up,...
X Games Aspen: Alesso concert slideshow
Swedish DJ and producer Alesso headlined the late X Games concert at Buttermilk Ski Area on Saturday night. The X Games music festival will conclude on Sunday afternoon with Bazzi (4:30 p.m.). Read The Aspen...
Kelly Sildaru wins first women’s ski pipe gold at X Games over Karker, Sharpe
Cassie Sharpe did everything in her power to win Saturday’s superpipe contest. She had no regrets. Her only question is, what else could she have done? No one really has an answer with the new...
Jamie Anderson holds off Laurie Blouin in slopestyle for 17th career X Games podium
Jamie Anderson’s snowboarding goals were and remain relatively humble. The Tahoe legend has racked up an unprecedented amount of podium finishes over her career, but she says that was never the peak she was trying...
X Games Day 3 notebook: Father of knuckle huck set to soar at X Games
Knuck king Kleveland ready for huck It’s time for the man who, in many ways, inspired the knuckle huck competition to actually compete in it. Last January, X Games Aspen debuted a new competition: snowboard...
X Games Aspen: Illenium plays and remixes his best for energetic crowd
Energy is something ever-present in music, especially so in EDM. Today’s audiences expect a combination of build-ups and lulls, of gentle sways and flailing. Longtime Coloradan and rising EDM mainstay Illenium, the first of this...
Rae Sremmurd premieres new song at X Games Aspen
Near the end of an hour-long set that opened three days of mountainside outdoor concerts at X Games Aspen on Friday night, Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee announced he’d be debuting a new solo song and...
X Games ski big air: Henrik Harlaut wins 12th X Games ski medal; rising French star Tess Ledeux gets first gold
At the end of the men’s ski big air final Friday night, the fans at Buttermilk Ski Area waited eagerly to see if defending champion Birk Ruud had done enough on the final jump of...
Steamboat’s Taylor Gold wins inaugural snowboard superpipe session at X Games
Simply put, Chase Josey didn’t know what to do. Nobody really did. The men’s snowboard superpipe session was a brand new event for X Games Aspen and figuring it out meant learning on the fly....
Aspen’s Cassidy Jarrell enjoys first X Games experience despite missing finals
Cassidy Jarrell could have been heartbroken about his first X Games Aspen experience as a competitor. Instead, it was mostly jubilation about finally getting to drop in under the lights Friday night on the sport’s...