The Barcelona X Games next May are just around the corner. It's unbelievable how fast time flies.
Barcelona will host the X Games extreme sports competition. The biggest names in skateboarding, BMX, Moto X and Rally Cross in the world will parade down Montjuïc mountain for 4 days: Travis Pastrana, Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Marcus Gronholm and Kyle Loza have been some of the champions in the history of the ESPN event.
The X Games are more than just a sports competition; since its inception, extreme sport has been linked to a lifestyle that goes beyond that and extends to music, fashion and urban art, which will also have their space on the esplanade of the Olympic Ring in Barcelona.
Ticket prices will range from €14 to €30, except for the urban rally circuit, which will be free.
For more information about the X Games you can visit their official website.
The X Games Barcelona The competition programme will open on Thursday 16 May at the Montjuïc Municipal Swimming Pool. The venue that was the prime location for the diving competition at the 1992 Olympics will once again become a spectacular visual icon of the city for the Skateboarding finals in the Vert category. The following day, this discipline, which takes place in a Half Pipe, will once again be the star of the BMX Freestyle finals.
Skateboarding and BMX Freestyle will also take place in other outstanding venues. In both sports, the Street and Park disciplines will take place in two large facilities located in the Olympic Ring and built especially for the occasion.
The Palau Sant Jordi will host two sessions of the Big Air Skateboard and BMX Freestyle categories, with an impressive 25-metre-high mega ramp.
The motor competitions will take place at the Olympic Stadium in Montjuïc. Moto X Freestyle and Enduro X will be the stars of the session on Saturday 18th, while the spectacular RallyCross event will be held in the same stadium the following day. The rest of the motor competitions (Moto X in the Step Up, Best Trick and Best Whip categories) will take place at the Palau Sant Jordi.
31,000 square meters of sports facilities
X Games Barcelona will build a total of 31,000m2 of competition circuits that will be distributed across the four facilities that will host the competitions: Palau Sant Jordi, Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc, Esplanada Anella Olímpica and Estadi Olímpic Lluis Companys. This figure is equivalent to 4 times the size of a football stadium such as Camp Nou. As for the competitions held at the Palau Sant Jordi and Estadi Olímpic, 12,000 cubic metres of land will also be needed, which could fill an Olympic swimming pool up to 5 times.
Barcelona as the world capital of sport
Barcelona will once again be the world capital of sport by hosting X Games Barcelona, which will be the most important sporting event in the Catalan capital in recent years, both economically and socially. In this regard, X Games Barcelona expects to generate an economic return for the city of up to 126 million euros and attract 420,000 people during the three consecutive years in which Barcelona will host this competition.
X Games Barcelona 2013 will have a team of more than 2,000 people including staff, health services, catering staff, television broadcasting and volunteers.
Anthony Dittmann, Director of Operations, ESPN X Games, comments:
“This is the first year that X Games has organised a competition of this size in Europe and we can’t wait for the citizens of Barcelona to enjoy the top-level spectacle that the X Games represent.”
