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Jan
7
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Skiing Holidays: Aspen again hosts Winter X Games

Author Mark Pawlak    Category Adventure Sports & Travel Thoughts, bestskiholidays     Tags , , , , , ,
Looking for some of the world’s best facilities, winter sports fans skiing in Aspen this month are in for a treat: the venue is again hosting the Winter X Games!

For the tenth year, the US destination will be the epi-centre of winter adventure sports action. World champions will compete, stars of slope and freestyle will battle it out, and records will fall.
So what’s happening this year? Well, there’s a new event: Snowboard Best Practice, and a re-launched favourite: Snowmobile Speed and Style.

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Jul
29
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Summer X-Games: Who’s taking gold this year?

Author Mark Pawlak    Category Adventure Sports & Travel Thoughts     Tags , , , , ,

If you don’t know: the X-Games are the extreme sports World Cup, Olympics, Cup final and Superbowl rolled into one!

This is where skate legend Tony Hawk first pulled off the legendary ’900′ back in 1999 and BMX uber rider Dave Mirra somehow turned a double backflip in 2000.

We just sat in on a press conference with Tony Hawk and friends, and Sandro Dias, one of only a handful of skaters to land a 900 told us he did it at the X-Games the first time he hit the ramp, never even checked it out beforehand: X-Games is where things happen!

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