“There’s just an energy it has even before the competitions have started. You just get really excited about it,” freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy says about the X Games. As a kid, he would travel to Aspen, Colorado, from his hometown of Telluride to watch competitions he dreamed of one day entering; bearing witness to these extreme feats — like the switch triple rodeo 1440 and other tricks that see competitors all but laugh in the face of gravity and velocity — gave him the same sense of excitement he feels now.

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