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The X Games comes to Europe
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For the first time it is in Europe. This week it will be in Tignes and PlanetSKI will be there. Following on from The Vancouver Winter Olympics there's growing mainstream interest in these types of events.
After the Olympics it is by far the biggest comeptition for these athletes.
The Winter Xmas Games 14 was held in Aspen Colorado back in Januay with all the main Olympic athletes taking part.
PlanetSKI will be there with full media access and will be reporting on the rapidly growing mainstream interest in the events taking place.
Growing interest in the eventsBritish eyes will be on Jenny Jones who is competing the snowboard Slopestyle.
She became the first Brit to win a Winter X Games gold medal in 2009, and she repeated her success with another first place finish again this January in Aspen.
Slopestyle is not an Olympic event, yet, so she was not at the Vancouver Games but maybe she will be in Sochi, Russia, in 4 years time if slopestyle can become an Olympic event.
The women's SuperPipe will see performances from Olympic medal-winners Torah Bright, Australia, and the American snowboarder, Gretchen Bleiler.
Among the athletes to watch in the Women's Skiing Slopestyle are Germany's, Lena Stoffel, and Canada's, Kaya Turski.
In the men's snowboarding there's Olympic silver medalist, Peetu Piiroinen, of Finland, and local Frenchman, Mathieu Crepel, who will each compete in both the SuperPipe and Slopestyle events.
The men's skiing Slopestyle event also promises to deliver top competition from the likes of New Zealand's Jossi Wells, Australia's Russ Henshaw, American three-time X Games medalist Colby West and Norwegian X Games multi-medal winner Andreas Hatveit.
Shaun White sadly won't be there but, hey, you can't have everything.
It looks like it might be quite an event.
TV coverage will be exclusive on ESPN and ESPN HD.
Should be quite a spectacleWinter X Games Europe Tignes: ESPN UK Coverage Schedule
Wednesday, 10th March
1700 Ski SuperPipe Men's Final - Live
Thursday, 11th March
1230 Snowboard Slopestyle Men's Final - Live
1530 Snowboard SuperPipe Women's Final - Live
Friday, 12th March
0830 Ski Slopestyle Women's Final - Live
1030 Snowboard Slopestyle Women's Final - Live
1230 Ski Slopestyle Men's Final - Live
1500 Ski SuperPipe Women's Final - Live
1700 Snowboard SuperPipe Men's Final - Live
The best web site coverage will, of course, be on PlanetSKI
Are these type of skiing and snowboarding competitions about to have a significant impact on the wider ski community after their success in the Vancouver Olympics? Perhaps.
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