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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

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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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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X Games Aspen 2025 Athlete Profiles

Megan Oldham

Red Gerard

Alex Hall

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