Winter X Games Aspen 2024 preview: Full schedule and how to watch live

Aspen, Colorado's Buttermilk Mountain is opening its slopes to Winter X Games 2024 (from 26-29 January) where the very best in freestyle skiing and snowboard will compete for coveted titles and glory.

Beijing 2022 champions Ailing (Eileen) Gu, Hirano Ayumu, Chloe Kim and Birk Ruud headline the stars set to compete in what will be a tightly packed three-day schedule.

Among the events scheduled to take place will be women's and men's snowboard and freestyle skiing slopestyle, big air, superpipe and non-Olympic event, knuckle huck.

Read on to find out which stars to watch out for, the competition schedule, and how to watch the action.

Winter X Games Aspen 2024: Schedule in full

Times are in MST (GMT-7).

Friday 26 January

• Women's snowboard slopestyle - 13:30 - 14:30

Saturday 27 January

• Women's snowboard superpipe - 17:30 - 18:30 
• Men's snowboard knuckle huck - 19:30 - 20:00
• Men's ski big air - 20:30 - 21:15
• Men's snowboard superpipe - 21:30 - 22:30
• Men's ski slopestyle - 10:30 - 11:45
• Women's snowboard knuckle huck - 12:30 - 13:00
• Women's ski knuckle huck - 13:30 - 14:00
• Snowboard street style - 14:15 - 15:15

Sunday 28 January

• Women's ski superpipe - 17:00 - 18:00
• Women's ski big air - 18:30 - 19:15
• Men's snowboard big air - 20:00 - 20:45 
• Men's ski knuckle huck - 21:00 - 21:30
• Men's snowboard slopestyle - 11:00 - 12:15
• Women's ski slopestyle - 12:45 - 13:45

Monday 29 January

• Men's ski superpipe - 17:00 - 18:00
• Women's snowboard big air - 18:30 - 19:15

X Games Aspen 2024: Invited athletes

Men’s snowboard slopestyle

• Tiarn Collins (NZL)
• Chris Corning (USA)
• Red Gerard (USA)
• Valentino Guseli (AUS)
• Hasegawa Taiga (JPN)
• Judd Henkes (USA)
• Mark McMorris (CAN)
• Rene Rinnekangas (FIN)
• Mons Roisland (NOR)
• Sven Thorgen (SWE)

Women’s snowboard slopestyle

• Mia Brookes (GBR)
• Tess Coady (AUS)
• Anna Gasser (AUT)
• Iwabuchi (JPN)
• Julia Marino (USA)
• Annika Morgan (GER)
• Murase Kokomo (JPN)
• Onitsuka Miyabi (JPN)

Men’s ski slopestyle

• Ferdinand Dahl (NOR)
• Mac Forehand (USA)
• Alex Hall (USA)
• Henrik Harlaut (SWE)
• Evan McEachran (CAN)
• Max Moffatt (CAN)
• Andri Ragettli (SUI)
• Birk Ruud (NOR)
• Colby Stevenson (USA)
• Jesper Tjader (SWE)

Women’s ski slopestyle

• Ruby Star Andrews (NZL)
• Olivia Asselin (CAN)
• Mathilde Gremaud (SUI)
• Ailing Eileen Gu (CHN)
• Rell Harwood (USA)
• Sarah Hoefflin (SUI)
• Tess Ledeux (FRA)
• Giulia Tanno (SUI)

Men’s Snowboard Big Air

• Tiarn Collins (NZL)
• Chris Corning (USA)
• Hasegawa Taiga (JPN)
• Kunitake Hiroaki (JPN)
• Mark McMorris (CAN)
• Otsuka Takeru (JPN)
• Rene Rinnekangas (FIN)
• Sven Thorgen (SWE)

Women’s Snowboard Big Air

• Laurie Blouin (CAN)
• Mia Brookes (GBR)
• Tess Coady (AUS)
• Anna Gasser (AUT)
• Iwabuchi Reira (JPN)
• Annika Morgan (GER)
• Murase Kokomo (JPN)
• Onitsuka Miyabi (JPN)

Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe

• Valentino Guseli (AUS)
• Hirano Ayumu (JPN)
• Hirano Kaishu (JPN)
• Hirano Ruka (JPN)
• Scotty James (AUS)
• Chase Josey (USA)
• Jan Scherrer (SUI)
• Totsuka Yuto (JPN)

Women’s Snowboard SuperPipe

• Emily Arthur (USA)
• Cai Xuetong (CHN)
• Brook D’Hondt (CAN)
• Bea Kim (USA)
• Chloe Kim (USA)
• Maddie Mastro (USA)
• Ono Mistuki (JPN)
• Berenice Wicki (SUI)

Men’s Ski SuperPipe

• Aaron Blunck (USA)
• Alex Ferreira (USA)
• Nick Goepper (USA)
• Hunter Hess (USA)
• Birk Irving (USA)
• Brendan Mackay (CAN)
• Nico Porteous (NZL)
• David Wise (USA)

Women’s Ski SuperPipe

• Zoe Atkin (GBR)
• Sabrine Cakmakli (GER)
• Amy Fraser (CAN)
• Dillan Glennie (CAN)
• Ailing Eileen Gu (CHN)
• Svea Irving (USA)
• Riley Jacobs (USA)
• Jang Yujin (KOR)

Winter X Games Aspen 2024: Storylines to follow

With a healthy mix of veterans and up-and-coming stars there will be plenty of talent to look out for when X Games Aspen 2024 gets underway.

Among those set to be under the spotlight will be Beijing 2022 double Olympic gold medallist Ailing (Eileen) Gu who is down to compete in the freeski superpipe and slopestyle.

Gu made her return to slopestyle for the first time in two years at last weekend's Laax Open and found herself just short of a superb Mathilde Gremaud, who put down one of the best-ever runs by a woman in the history of the discipline to take the win.

Expect these two to duel it out once again in slopestyle before Gu goes for more bounty in the superpipe.

Comebacks remains a theme in the women's snowboard halfpipe where two-time Olympic champion Chloe Kim continues her return to competition. Pipped by Ono Mitsuki to the halfpipe crown at Laax after two rare errors, Kim will have her eye on the gold in Aspen.

In the women's snowboard big air, 2023 winner Iwabuchi Reira will be going for the double, and expect her to put up a challenge in slopestyle too.

Over in the men's events, Laax Open freeski slopestyle winner Birk Ruud will be hoping he can take momentum with him to Aspen with a strong field in wait. Defending champion Colby Stevenson, Mac Forehand and Andri Ragettli will be part of the group going for gold.

Forehand will also be a threat in the freeski big event where he will be trying to make it two consecutive X Games wins.

18-year-old Valentino Guseli made history in Laax with fellow Aussie Scotty James after the pair finished one-and-two. That battle could go for another round in Aspen with the duo featuring in a deep superpipe field including Japan's Hirano Ruka, who is currently leading Guseli in James in the Crystal Globe standings.

With Marcus Kleveland absent from the list of invited athletes, a new champion will be anointed at the end of the men's snowboard big air competition, while Mark McMorris will be out to defend his crown in the snowboard slopestyle event.

How to watch X Games Aspen 2024

All the action from X Games Aspen 2024 will be available to watch live on ESPN, and ABC, and will also be streamed live on XGames.com.