X Games Aspen 2026: Your Ultimate Guide to the Snowboard & Freeski Competition

X Games returns for the 25th year with a full roster of snowboard and freeski stars vying for victory on the slopes. Aspen’s Buttermilk Mountain will play host to the competition, which will take place from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 January. The schedule includes snowboard and freeski slopestyle, Big Air, and superpipe, plus the fan-favourite non-Olympic event, Knuckle Huck. Read on to discover the stars competing, schedule and how to watch the 2026 X Games in Aspen. 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.