Are you ready for the Winter X Games?

 
 

Updated: Monday, 10 January 2011

It's that time of the year again and all extreme sports fans are planning their way to Colorado where the 15th annual Winter X Games are going to be held on January 27 to 30, 2011!

This year, more than 200 extreme sports athletes are going to show off their wares in snowboarding, snowmobiling and skiing.  See them fly, defy gravity in jaw dropping action.  So guess who has been confirmed to return to the X Games this year?  For snowboarding, you have Mikkel Bang, Sage Kotsenburg, Jamie Anderson, Cheryl Maas, Enni Rukajarvi, Zack Black, Kazuhiro Kokubo, Shaun White, Scotty Lago, Holly Crawford, Eero Ettala, Tyler Flanagan and Sebastien Toutant.  For skiing, we have Bobby Brown, Tom Wallisch, Ashley Battersby, Grete Eliassen, Keri Herman, Xavier Bertoni, Byron Wells, Jen Hudak, Devin Logan, and Jacob Wester.  For snowmobiling, we have Chris Heppding, Doug Henry, Jeff Tweet, Daniel Boldin, Caleb Moore, Cory Borchers, and Parker Brown. This is partial and unofficial, for the updated list, please go to this page: Winter X Games: List of confirmed athletes .

The games are going to be at Aspen Co, which has been the home of the games for the past 10 years.

The Winter X Games have been the most-watched games in the past three years where it has consistently brought in more than 43 million viewers.  Live coverage of the games will be on ESPN and ABC, with more than 20 hours of airtime alloted for the games.  

That's just for two channels: ESPN and ESPN2. This year, there are two additional channels to watch the Winter X Games on.  Enjoy exclusive and live videos on ESPN3.com and 3D coverage too!

The coverage starts on January 26 on ESPN3.com and continues at different channels through Sunday.  For more information head on to the official ESPN site schedules .

But the fun is in being there, as more thatn 84,000 people came to Aspen last year for the 14th Winter X Games.

The Winter X Games was launched in 1997 and already close to 30,000 people were there.  That number continued to rise, peaking in at around 80,000 people attending the games annually starting from the year 2000.

Winter X Games watchers should bookmark the official ESPN site for the Winter X games at http://expn.go.com/ for up-to-the-minute news on the games.  You can also find great coverage and videos only here at RacewayExtremeTube.com

So what's RacewayExtremeTube.com without the videos?  It's a Monday, so we might as well wake you up with the BEST tricks from last year's Winter X Games.  Enjoy!