Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michelle Bruton covers action sports and the Olympics and Paralympics. Aspen’s Buttermilk Mountain has served as the home of X ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michelle Bruton covers action sports and the Olympics and Paralympics. In freestyle skiing and snowboarding, rail jam has a casual ...

Last year, the X Games were filled with plenty of firsts. Hiroto Ogiwara won a gold medal in Big Air after putting down a 2340, a first in any snowboard competition anywhere. It was a trick that he ...

Arielle Gold believes Chloe Kim can be beaten. And Saturday at X Games Aspen, Gold nearly had her. Nearly. “She can. I believe it, but it’s so great to have someone like that who is spearheading the ...

The legacy of Scotty James seems to grow each year, even though his star power can’t get much brighter. The same can be said for his riding, which always seems to improve despite him being a ...

Anna Gasser wasn’t sure she’d get another X Games Aspen gold medal. That is until she landed a switch triple cork 1260 — or three inverts and three-and-a-half spins — while flying over 70 feet in the ...

Japan’s Hiroto Ogiwara stunned the world with the first-ever 2340 to win men’s snowboard big air last winter at X Games Aspen. Turns out, that was a script the 20-year-old didn’t feel like changing.

Chloe Kim won her seventh X Games Aspen women's snowboard halfpipe title (and eighth title across all X Games sites), breaking her tie with Kelly Clark for the most in history. Kim, the two-time ...

While the Great Recession was winding down in America, New Jersey native Jessica Perlmutter was just coming into the world. Fast forward to her X Games debut, and the 16-year-old made an immediate ...