Special Olympics and Pro Athletes Shredded for Inclusion at the X Games Aspen 2023

Enthusiast favorites and newcomers alike hit the slopes for the eighth annual Exclusive Olympics Unified Snowboarding and third yearly Unified Snowboarding competitions on 27 January at the X Game titles Aspen 2023. Opponents came from throughout Europe, North The united states and the Pacific which include Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and United states of america.

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The unified skiing and snowboarding groups consisted of just one Particular Olympics athlete and one particular X Online games athlete. Every workforce member took just one run on each individual of the two levels of competition classes, with the experienced athletes racing versus a single a further and the Special Olympics athletes racing one one more. To decide the closing rankings, every single teams’ scores averaged the Special Olympics athlete and their teammates’ time.

The professional-athlete roster consisted of twelve of the world’s very best action sports activities athletes raced Distinctive Olympics athletes in competition which includes: Victoria Arlen, ESPN SportsCenter host and Distinctive Olympics Champion Ambassador, Hanna Faulhaber, Elisabeth Hosking, Chris Klug, Sage Kotsenburg, Scotty Lago, Craig McMorris, Nico Porteous, Mons Røisland, Tom Wallisch, David Intelligent and rapper, singer and songwriter Yung Gravy.

Defending champions Particular Olympic athlete Daina Shilts and Olympic silver medalist Mons Røisland paired up once more for back again-to-back again gain capturing gold medals in the snowboarding level of competition with a merged workforce rating of 29.4 seconds. The gold medals in skiing ended up awarded to Unique Olympics athlete Haldan Pranger and Olympic skier Hanna Faulhaber with a combined time of 26.3 seconds. Halden gained silver final calendar year with pro partner Aaron Blunck.

Unified Snowboarding

Unified Skiing

Particular Olympics Unified Sports® joins people today with and without the need of mental disabilities on the exact workforce. Given that 2013, X Games’ broadcast partner—ESPN—has been the Worldwide Presenting Sponsor of Unique Olympics Unified Sports and supports unified activation all over the environment.