Ventura’s seagulls have competition for the highest fliers with the X Games in town. The world’s best skateboarders, bikers, and motocross riders will take over the Ventura County Festival Grounds for the X Games California finals from Friday through Sunday, soaring over the halfpipes and dirt jumps on their way to the podium.
Host of the X Games, Selema Masekela, spoke to leading athletes from all three sports in a media panel before they went back out to the courses to get in their final hours of practice.
Jagger Eaton and Gui Khury represented skateboarding as two of the most accomplished young athletes in the sport, at 22 and 14 years old, respectively. In 2012, Eaton became the youngest ever X Games competitor at 11 years old. He also won the first-ever bronze medal in Men’s Street Skateboarding at the 2020 Olympics — no big deal. In 2019, Khury broke Eaton’s youngest competitor record at age 10 and later also became the youngest X Games gold medalist.