Athletes to watch at X Games Aspen 2026
Freeski
The USA’s Olympic slopestyle champion Alex Hall is set to compete in Big Air, slopestyle and Knuckle Huck in Aspen, with the six-time X Games winner entering the Games as the defending Knuckle Huck champion.
Three-time Olympic slopestyle medalist Nick Goepper (USA) returns to the superpipe at this year’s X Games, an event in which he is the defending champion.
New Zealand’s Luca Harrington, the freeski Big Air world champion, will aim to defend his X Games slopestyle title and add to the Big Air silver he won in 2025.
Canada’s two-time Olympian Megan Oldham has reached the X Games podium seven times in slopestyle and Big Air. She made history in 2023, landing the first-ever triple cork in women’s freestyle skiing.
Zoe Atkin, Britain’s Beijing 2022 halfpipe Olympian and 2025 world champion, will look to add a second X Games title to her collection in Aspen.
Snowboard
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 third straight LAAX Open win.
Two-time Olympic slopestyle gold medalist and Big Air silver medallist Scotty James is chasing a record 22nd X Games medal.
Austria’s Anna Gasser, a two-time Olympic Big Air gold medalist and eight-time X Games podium finisher, is returning from an off-season shoulder injury. She took third in slopestyle at the 2026 Laax Open and is looking to add to her four X Games Big Air victories.