The X Games are coming home to Southern California this summer for an eight-day tour of the Pacific coast.
The action sports competition announced Wednesday that it will host events in San Diego, Los Angeles and Ventura from July 16-23. The full slate of summer sports will include skateboarding, BMX and motocross competitions, with more than 150 athletes expected to participate in the tour that'll culminate at the seaside Ventura County Fairgrounds on July 21-23.
Steve Flisler, a former executive at Twitch, took over as the X Games' CEO late last year and quickly announced his desire to return the event to its roots. The X Games have been staged frequently over the past quarter-century in Southern California, an action sports hotbed and the ancestral home of both skateboarding and BMX competition.
San Diego hosted the third and fourth editions of the X Games in the 1990s, and Los Angeles hosted the events from 2003-13 before organizers fragmented the competition worldwide among several cities. Dennis Enarson competes during the BMX Freestyle Park final at the X Games in Los Angeles, Saturday, July 30, 2011. Enarson won the silver medal in the event.San Diego will host the popular Best Trick competition for street skaters and BMX riders, and organizers are planning a large fan event during the ensuing competition in downtown Los Angeles before the event finals in Ventura.
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