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X Games Aspen 2025 Athlete Profiles

A collection of profiles, stories and backgrounds on some of our top athletes set to compete at X Games Aspen 2025

Alex Ferreira

Imagine three-time and defending X Games gold medalist Alex Ferreira at a career low. Aspen’s perennial local hero and a high-flying SuperPipe star, Ferreira found himself at a crossroads. X Games Aspen 2023 had been rough; two brutal crashes rattled his confidence. That came after a disappointing 7th at XG Aspen 2021, and he missed Aspen 2022 with injury. The 2023 performance even caused someone to suggest that retirement might be his best option. For Ferreira, nearing 30 and no longer able to rely solely on his immense natural ability, it was time to reassess...

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Red Gerard

Red Gerard’s long wait for X Games glory finally ended at XG Aspen 2024. After eight largely frustrating years, Gerard logged three great scores on his way to Slopestyle gold. “The word ‘relief’ comes to mind,” Red says. “I’m really hoping to lock in another one.” Though he’d won just about everything else in snowboarding -- 2018 Olympic gold, four World Cups, two Dew Tour titles, a US Open -- an X Games victory had proved elusive. His heavily hyped X Games debut in 2017 disappointed (14th), and his XG resume since featured three 4th-place finishes that were starting to drive him crazy. Even the bronze medal he nabbed in 2020 (his lone podium before 2024) bummed him out: Red saw it as one tiny bobble that kept him from gold...

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Alex Hall

X Games champ Alex Hall makes everything seem effortless. At 6-foot-4, he’s as stylish walking the ESPYs red carpet as he is navigating a slopestyle jib line. But he’s not just about looking good. He’s about pushing boundaries -- his own, the sport’s and maybe even gravity’s. Hall is the only person to earn X Games gold in four different Ski disciplines: Slopestyle, Big Air, Knuckle Huck and Real Ski. He also owns Olympic slopestyle gold from the 2022 Winter Olympics. Some with that resume would have an ego the size of Aspen, but Hall is cooler than that. He’s not about flaunting what he’s done; he’s about what’s next...

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Rookies LJ Henriquez & Lily Dhawornvej

LJ Henriquez (16) and Lily Dhawornvej (15) are changing the face of snowboarding, and the teens just scored their rookie entries to X Games Aspen 2025 the old-fashioned way: They earned it. At the Street Style Pro X Games qualifier in December, both LJ and Lily had to advance out of the Next X contest just to compete in the main event. No problem. They then beat much more seasoned pros to claim their X Games Aspen Street Style spots...

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Kokomo Murase

Kokomo Murase is ready to make more history at X Games Aspen 2025. Ready to defend her gold medals in Snowboard Big Air and Knuckle Huck. Ready to upgrade her Aspen 2025 Slopestyle silver and become the first woman with three gold at a single X Games. But first she’s planning to take a brief pause. The week before X Games, she’ll don a traditional long-sleeved furisode winter kimono for the Seijin-shiki ceremony to commemorate Seijin-no-hi, the Japanese Coming-of-Age Day...

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Megan Oldham

Long before Megan Oldham made history at X Games Aspen 2023, she was just a kid from the cold flatlands of Ontario. A very motivated kid. The Oldhams’ garage roof didn’t just protect cars through harsh winters, it also served as a literal launchpad. The snowy yard below became her training ground, where she and her older brother, Bruce, crafted a makeshift terrain park with whatever they could find. It wasn’t elaborate, but it was theirs. A scrappy setup where every jump was a leap of faith...

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Zeb Powell

X Games Aspen Knuckle Huck gold medalist Zeb Powell views his approach to snowboarding as an improvisational creative process. He says he’s inspired by the ways other artists he loves -- Freddie Gibbs, Cleo Soul, Tyler the Creator -- play around with manipulating sounds, beats or words. His own artistic medium? “It’s really just about feeling out different ways to manipulate gravity,” Zeb says. And he sure did that enroute to his silver medal at X Games Aspen 2024. But while Knuckle Huck’s terminology may sound like a foreign language to the uninitiated, Zeb believes the pictures resonate with people. Viewership numbers and social engagement back him up...

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Birk Ruud

Birk Ruud’s ambitions can’t be contained by ski bindings. From his first X Games Ski Big Air gold at Norway 2018 to his XG Aspen 2024 Slopestyle title, the 6-time X Games medalist has mastered the art of taking flight. But he wants to master much more. The 24-year-old also has become a world-class snowboarder and excellent skateboarder, and he’s even a budding entrepreneur. Then there’s his death-diving hobby -- a sport that involves leaping from high towers into water...

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Zoi Sadowski-Synnott

In 2024, X Games champ Zoi Sadowski-Synnott was on-site in Aspen for the 6th consecutive year. But she was watching from the friends and family corral, a broken ankle preventing the two-time defending Snowboard Slopestyle champ from a threepeat attempt. Sadowski-Synnott had been at the forefront of progression in the discipline, but she witnessed the best riding in women’s history go down without her...

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X Games Aspen 2025 Athlete Profiles

Alex Ferreira

Red Gerard

Alex Hall

Rookies LJ Henriquez & Lily Dhawornvej

Kokomo Murase

Megan Oldham

Zeb Powell

Birk Ruud

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott

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