Spy athletes ready for X-Games 12

Spy Optic's top eleven athletes will be competing for gold amongst the world's elite in the prestigious annual Winter X Games 12 in Aspen, Colorado. This year Buttermilk Resort will be hosting the Games and festivities January 24-27th.

In snowboard, young pipe slayers Iouri Podladtchikov (I-Pod), Louie Vito and Brad Martin will be competing in the SuperPipe. Joining these three in Aspen, Priscilla Levac and Mark Frank Montoya will take on the monstrous Slopestyle course.  

As for Spy's selected skiers, five athletes will be in competition at this year's Winter X. Canadian young gun Charles Gagnier will be competing in Big Air and Slopestyle. You'll be seeing Sean Decker on Slopestyle and Kevin Connolly on Mono Skier X. Spy ski SuperPipe riders Stefan Thomas and Stephanie Sirianni are prepping for the games with less than two weeks to go.  

Also on the Spy roster, last year's SnoCross gold medalist winner Tucker Hibbert is back competing in this year's Games, looking for another gold.

Spy Optic's crew is excited to represent in Aspen. With such a strong field of riders from a variety of backgrounds and experience, this year promises to be one of our best yet.  Be sure to tune in live to ESPN to watch Spy's athletes take on the fierce competition. Visit www.expn.go.com for more information. www.spyoptic.com