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World freestyle skiing and snowboarding championships moved to Aspen

World championships for big air, halfpipe and slopestyle skiing and snowboarding have been relocated to Aspen, Colo., next month.

The biennial world freestyle skiing and snowboarding championships, originally scheduled at Zhangjiakou, China, have been split among four different venues after it was announced Dec. 4 that the 2022 Winter Olympic venue would no longer host due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Aspen, which also hosts the annual Winter X Games, hosts worlds for those three ski and snowboard disciplines from March 10-16, according to an International Ski Federation calendar.

Previously, it was announced that world championships for the other disciplines:

Ski cross and snowboarding cross: Idre Fjäll, Sweden, this Thursday through Saturday
Alpine snowboarding: Rogla, Slovenia, March 1-2
Aerials, moguls: Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 8-11

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