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12 Years of X

EXPN.com

Friday, July 28, 2006

In 1995, ESPN brought together windsurfing, bungy jumping, kiteskiing, skysurfing and barefoot jumping in a bill touted as the Extreme Games. The next year, the E and the treme were dropped, and the X Games took shape. During the decade of summers that followed, 29 different disciplines would be dropped, leaving professional street lugers and in-line skaters alike to take their battles back to the streets, sans TV cameras. Chapters of action sports history have been compiled at the Games, w ...

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