X-Games Sweep For Roxy Girls Chloe Kim & Tess Ledeux
The 2024 X Games took place in Aspen over the weekend and offered the usual display of high-performance and athletic records that keep action sports coming back for more. Three days highlighted by Chloe Kim’s majestic return to the event and Tess Ledeux’s awe-inspiring domination in two disciplines.
Chloe Kim: The Queen is Back
After taking a year off following the 2022 Winter Olympics, Chloe Kim returned to the half-pipe with a bang!
The double Olympic Gold medalist took the win in Colorado this weekend, not without setting a record in the process: Friday, she became the first woman in history to land a 1260 competitively. A historical feat that Chloe had been working at for a while: “I’ve really wanted to do that trick for a long time. I had attempted it in Beijing, and I wanted to give it a shot! I wish it was a little cleaner, but I’m really stoked I was able to put it down!”.
This marks Chloe’s 7th X Games Gold medal, thus tying Kelly Clark’s historical record in the discipline.
The 2018 Winter Olympics cemented Chloe Kim as the female face of both snowboarding and action sports. At age 17, with a score of 98.25 on her third and final run, Chloe became the youngest woman in history to win an Olympic snowboarding Gold medal. After winning five consecutive events, including her first World Championships Gold and her fifth X Games Gold, Chloe ended the season with a Silver Medal while riding on a broken ankle at the US Open.
After being accepted to Princeton University, Chloe took the 2019-20 season off from competing to focus on her education. Her return to the slopes in 2021 was one for the books: a 6th X Games gold medal and a World Champion title in tow. One year later, she shattered records with a second Olympic Gold Medal at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. In 2024, she took her 7th X Games Gold Medal after a year off, proving once again that she is unstoppable.
Tess Ledeux Soars towards History and Wins
An X-Games fixture in both Big Air and Slopestyle, France’s Tess Ledeux came in for the sweep this weekend with some incredible runs that left audiences and commentators speechless. The 22-year-old ROXY Girl took the win in Big Air on Saturday with a final score of 90 before easing into Slopestyle the following take and taking a 95.33 for three runs that had Tess beside herself: “I can’t believe it… I just landed my best slopestyle run ever.”
With this double-feat, Tess’ X-Games medal total count goes up to ten, making the only athlete in history – male or female- to win gold in both events twice!
A young prodigy from the European ski scene, Tess has enjoyed an uninterrupted wave of success. The French phenomenon became the youngest French athlete to ever participate in a Slopestyle competition at the X-Games at just 15, during which she won the silver medal. Bouncing off her great start in the competitive world, she became World Champion a year later, in Sierra Nevada and topped the impressive record with two X Games Gold Medals and a new title as the first ever Big Air World Champion. In 2022, she took the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics. At 22, Tess boasts an impressive 10 X Games medals and has become a fixture in Big Air & Slopestyle internationally. She has become a leading figure in the sports, constantly infusing new tricks in her runs.
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