The X Video games are saying “later dude” to Southern California after years of gnarly motion and heading north to Sacramento for the following three years.
The acute sports activities competitors will have a good time its thirtieth anniversary on the California State Fairgrounds from Aug. 22 to 24 subsequent yr, X Video games organizers introduced Thursday. The video games, which embrace skateboarding, BMX and motocross, had been primarily based within the Southland since 2021.
The X Video games had been final in Northern California in August 2000 when skateboarder Bob Burnquist received a gold medal and Eric Koston took the highest spot in skateboard park, a contest that has largely been adopted by the Summer season Olympics.
Bob Burnquist of Brazil flips throughout warm-ups for the skateboard huge air occasion on the 2012 X Video games in Los Angeles.
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“A number of the greatest moments in X Video games historical past occurred within the San Francisco Bay,” X Video games Chief Government Jeremy Bloom mentioned in an announcement. “Twenty-five years later, we’re thrilled to deliver X Video games again to Northern California to have a good time the thirtieth anniversary of the model.”
The X Video games had been created by ESPN to supply a TV platform for excessive sports activities and premiered in Rhode island in 1995. Through the years it has been the place athletes similar to skateboarding and BMX legends Tony Hawk and Dave Mirra have debuted new methods, and the place, in 2012, a competitor carried out the primary snowmobile entrance flip.
Los Angeles first hosted the Summer season X Video games in 2003 and has hosted a number of instances since then, together with in 2021, when COVID protocols prevented an viewers from watching the video games in individual. The newest video games had been held in Ventura County this summer time. Other than a handful of years, Southern California has hosted extra Summer season X Video games than another a part of the nation.
Subsequent yr’s video games will happen on the former Raging Waters website on the Cal Expo/California State Fairgrounds in Sacramento. The video games will function music and competitions with over $1 million in prizes, in keeping with the organizers.
“I grew up proper outdoors of Sacramento, so this actually is a dream come true for me,” five-time X Video games BMX athlete Bryce Tryon mentioned in an announcement that accompanied the announcement. “X Video games has at all times been an enormous a part of my life, so I’m stoked to really feel like I’m taking part in host to a contest that has given me a lot over time and present my hometown the perfect that motion sports activities have to supply.”
