Denver native Egan Wint competes during women's snowboard knuckle huck at the 2024 X Games Aspen. Photo courtesy of X Games Trevor Brown, Jr.
The women danced on the snow — spinning, dipping, and flipping, all while hucking off a jump in a show of athletic creativity that left the crowd stunned.
Why it matters: This is the Winter X Games, held in Aspen since 2002, and renowned for its progression and equity in snow sports, Axios' John Frank reports.
State of play: For the first time at the competition, women displayed their talents in the ski and snowboard knuckle huck event, jumping off the flat part of a ski jump and down the landing in stylish pirouettes.
First-time competitor Egan Wint, who grew up in Denver and now lives in Salt Lake City, competed in the snowboard event, where a local Girl Scout troop filled the spectator section with hollers and cheerful signs.
Wint landed on the podium with a bronze despite never competing in such an event.
