Tignes Winter X Games

8th March 2010

The first Winter X Games in Europe is due to be staged on the slopes of French resort Tignes, from March 10th to 12th.

Tignes Winter X Games

The X Games have been huge in America for the past decade and have become a launch pad for some of the world’s top freestyle talent on skis or boards.

Chris Gunnarson and Franck Wells are the two terrain park designers from the American company Snow Park Technology have been on the scene for 14 years making their state-of-the-art equipment, have been in Tignes for the past two weeks creating the park and sites that the competitors will ride.

Gunnarson and Wells actually started work on their terrain park masterpiece last July, on the resort’s summer glacier snow sports area and are now back pushing the snow to make the Slopestyle modules, bringing down the half-pipe bottom and raising the height of the SuperPipe to its full king-size dimension.

The X Games will bring three days of sports and parties with spectators able to view the action from the foot of the Slopestyle and the SuperPipe to watch training, eliminations and the eight final events. Tignes Winter X Games will also have some Snowmobile demos, never seen in Europe before.

The X Fest partners’ village will offer free entertainment all day then at sunset, DJs will perform on the big stage giving the opportunity to party till dawn.

Tignes Guide | Tignes Ski chalets

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