The X Games is an annual competition in several sports extreme said. The games are organized and disseminated in the United States (Aspen, Colorado) by ESPN and are separated into two seasons: the Winter X Games and the Summer X Games. The best competitors receive medals of gold, silver and bronze.
The games are also an opportunity to see live bands, giving them an atmosphere of music festival.
If the U.S. version since 1997, is born in March 2010 that the first European version of the rendezvous winter. So ESPN has partnered with Canal + Events (Event subsidiary of Canal +) to co-produce the first Winter X Games Europe. This competition, as the U.S. edition, hosts the best freestyle athletes in the world.
Extreme summer games were held for the first time in 1994 under the name First Extreme Games in Rhode Island, with the support of ESPN and ESPN2 mainly, the string for the time for this type of sport and launched a few months earlier. The games will be renamed the following year X Games.
Given the success of the games was extreme, ESPN launched the "Winter X Games" 1 in Aspen United States in 1997 after they were created in the 1995 Rhode Island (United States).
True success across the Atlantic with the event is broadcast in 140 countries, ESPN decided in 2010 to organize the same event in Europe with the support of Canal + Events. Competing with Annecy and La Clusaz La Plagne, Tignes is designated station is hosting this event for the period 2010-2013 and extended to 2014.
The games are also an opportunity to see live bands, giving them an atmosphere of music festival.
If the U.S. version since 1997, is born in March 2010 that the first European version of the rendezvous winter. So ESPN has partnered with Canal + Events (Event subsidiary of Canal +) to co-produce the first Winter X Games Europe. This competition, as the U.S. edition, hosts the best freestyle athletes in the world.
Summer X Games.
Extreme summer games were held for the first time in 1994 under the name First Extreme Games in Rhode Island, with the support of ESPN and ESPN2 mainly, the string for the time for this type of sport and launched a few months earlier. The games will be renamed the following year X Games.
Winter X Games.
Given the success of the games was extreme, ESPN launched the "Winter X Games" 1 in Aspen United States in 1997 after they were created in the 1995 Rhode Island (United States).
True success across the Atlantic with the event is broadcast in 140 countries, ESPN decided in 2010 to organize the same event in Europe with the support of Canal + Events. Competing with Annecy and La Clusaz La Plagne, Tignes is designated station is hosting this event for the period 2010-2013 and extended to 2014.