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X-Games
The X-Games is a televised event that can be seen on ESPN and features a series of sports known as extreme sports. Some extreme sports include demolition derby, hang gliding, snowboarding, wakeboarding, and motocross. What makes a sport an extreme sport are events where there is a heightened degree of danger compared to the more traditional sports. Extreme sports usually involve some type of extreme athletic activities whether it is extreme heights, extreme speeds, extreme descents from tall heights, or extreme hitting. Paintball is a new and growing sport that is sometimes listed in the category of extreme sports, but has one of the lowest incidences of injury in all of sports. Not all extreme sports will be televised or played in the X-Games. Some of the events hosted by the ESPN X-Games include surfing, rallying, Motocross, Freestyle BMX, the SuperPipe, and snowmobiling. The ESPN X-Games are played at two times of the year, with one set of events for the winter X-Games and one set of events for the Summer X-Games. Some X-Games events that have been covered in the last couple of years include skateboarding, BMX Freestyle, inline skating, and the Vert ramp. There are additional disciplines that were played in recent years but are now defunct. Recently defunct disciplines include the Adventure Race, Bungee Jumping, and Sport Climbing.
Sport Climbing is a style of rock climbing that relies on permanent anchors fixed to the rock. Usually, the rock faces on Sport Climbing courses are nearly vertical ascents with permanent anchors that are placed fairly close together. Sport Climbs are usually between 90 to 150 feet in length, and have 5 to 30 bolts from the bottom to the summit. Championship climbers in this event have great stamina, strength, and endurance to climb at full speed throughout the entire event.
The Summer X-Games held their first competitions in 1995 at Rhode Island and Mount Snow, with nearly 200,000 spectators and fans in attendance. The Winter X-Games premiered in January 1997 at the Snow Summit Mountain Resort in Big Bear Lake California. For more information about this year's X-Games, logon to EXPN.
People are drawn to the X-Games for a number of reasons. One is simply the thrill of seeing athletes pushing their bodies to the limit, traveling at amazing speeds and soaring to great heights. The 20th century has produced various technological innovations that have given athletes the ability to travel at great speeds and perform many amazing acrobatic maneuvers while in the air. Two incredible events are the BMX Mega Ramp and the Skateboarding Mega Ramp. The Mega Ramp includes a sky high platform where athletes start from in order to build up speed until they perform various acrobatics at the second ramp.
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