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The Winter X Games have been held annually since 1995, with the event taking place at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colo., every year since 2002. That's not going to change this year, even though the coronavirus pandemic has heavily impacted the sports world.
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2021 Winter X Games Information
Dates: January 29-31
TV Coverage: ESPN, ESPN2, ABC
Live Stream: X Games' YouTube channel, ESPN online
There will be some changes, though. The 2021 iteration is going to be held without fans in attendance and will be "produced with comprehensive COVID-19 risk mitigation protocols in place for participants and staff," per the X Games site.
Still, this weekend will feature all the Winter X Games events that fans have come to enjoy every year, with men's and women's skiing and snowboarding competitions such as superpipe, slopestyle, big air and more. And there are a few notable athletes who will be competing in Aspen.
Here's everything you need to know about this year's Winter X Games, which get underway Friday.
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The full schedule is available at the competition's official website. A list of all invited athletes can be found here.
One Winter X Games legend is going to miss out on this year's event, while another is making a return.
Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris, who has won nine career X Games gold medals and a pair of Olympic medals, won't be participating this year after testing positive for COVID-19, accordig to ESPN's Alyssa Roenigk.
Last year, the 27-year-old took the silver medal in the big air event in Aspen, then won gold in big air and silver in slopestyle at X Games Norway.
"I'm definitely going to miss competing at my favorite event," McMorris said in a statement to ESPN, per Roenigk. "I'm sending good vibes to all the riders and to the organizers who workedso hard to create a safe environment for everyone to compete under such difficult circumstances."
However, snowboarding fans will get to see the return of Shaun White, who last competed at an X Games event in 2017, when he placed 11th in the superpipe in Aspen. He has won 15 gold medals in his X Games career, with his last coming in the superpipe in 2013.
The 34-year-old has been posting updates from Aspen on his Instagram, as he shared that he pulled out of the Laax Open in Switzerland last week to stay in the U.S. and prepare for the Winter X Games. He last competed in a snowboarding event in the 2018 Winter Olympics, when he won gold in the men's halfpipe.
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