Athletes to watch at\u00a0X Games Aspen 2026
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The USA’s Olympic\u00a0slopestyle champion Alex Hall<\/a>\u00a0is set to compete in Big Air, slopestyle and Knuckle Huck in Aspen, with\u00a0the six-time X Games winner entering the Games as the defending Knuckle Huck champion.<\/p>\n Three-time Olympic\u00a0slopestyle medalist Nick Goepper<\/a> (USA) returns to the\u00a0superpipe at this year’s X Games, an event in which he is the defending champion.<\/p>\n New Zealand’s\u00a0Luca Harrington,<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n Canada’s two-time Olympian Megan Oldham<\/a>\u00a0has 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\u2019s freestyle skiing.<\/p>\n Zoe Atkin<\/a>, Britain’s Beijing 2022<\/a>\u00a0halfpipe Olympian and 2025 world champion, will look to add a second X Games title to her collection in Aspen.<\/p>\n Snowboard<\/p>\n Australia’s two-time Olympic halfpipe medalist (silver and bronze) and seven-time X Games champion, Scotty James<\/a>, is aiming for a fifth consecutive Aspen X Games victory following a third straight LAAX Open win.<\/p>\n Two-time Olympic slopestyle gold medalist and Big Air silver medallist Scotty James<\/a>\u00a0is chasing a record 22nd X Games medal.<\/p>\n