Medal Moments 2024
Asselin Wins Inaugural Women's Ski Knuckle Huck
Women's Ski Knuckle Huck Aspen 2024 Revisited
Asselin Wins Inaugural Women’s Ski Knuckle Huck
X Games Aspen 2024 hosted history’s first women’s Knuckle Huck contests, and Canadian teen Olivia Asselin captured Ski Knuckle Huck gold. Like many of her fellow Quebecois riders, Asselin boasts tremendous rail chops. Those skills were well-suited to Knuckle Huck’s debut, as Asselin flashed stylish moves like a flatspin 540 cribbed straight from the Knuckle Huck archives -- X Games champ and current XG Ski analyst Tom Wallisch threw the trick as an embedded reporter in the first Ski Knuckle Huck contest at XG Aspen 2020. It’s Asselin’s second X Games medal; she took Big Air bronze as a rookie at XG Aspen 2022.
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Rell Harwood took silver in her X Games debut. The Salt Lake City, UT, native later earned Big Air bronze and added a 4th in Slopestyle. She told X Games Ski reporter Kristen Beat that she’d been waiting her whole life for an X Games invitation. “I’d do 10 events if I could,” Harwood said. That’s the spirit. Longtime X Games vet Sarah Hoefflin collected bronze, her 5th X Games medal. The Swiss skier now has medals from Big Air, Slopestyle and Knuckle Huck.
Rewatch the podium runs from X Games Aspen 2024 below!