KEY TAKEAWAYS: The X Games Championship will be held in New Orleans for the first time. More than 100 athletes will compete in skateboarding, BMX, Moto X and scooter events. Olympians, X Games champions and world champions are scheduled to participate. Louisiana athletes Broc Raiford and Wyatt Fontenot will compete during the championship weekend.   The MoonPay X Games Championship will make its New Orleans debut this weekend, bringing more than 100 of the world’s top action sports athletes to the Caesars Superdome for three days of competition in skateboarding, BMX, Moto X and scooter events. The championship marks the first X Games event ever held in New Orleans and serves as the final stop of the 2026 X Games season. The competition will feature Olympic medalists, X Games champions and world champions competing in a variety of disciplines. Among the athletes expected to compete are Mizuho Hasegawa of Japan, the current overall points leader in the X Games League; Brazilian skateboarder Gui Khury, who holds the record for the most X Games gold medals earned as a teenager; Australian BMX rider Logan Martin, an 18-time X Games medalist and two-time Olympian; and Australian skateboarder Mia Kretzer, the youngest competitor in the field at 11 years old. Louisiana will also be represented by Destrehan BMX rider Broc Raiford, a two-time X Games medalist, and Opelousas native Wyatt Fontenot, who recently earned his first X Games medal in Moto X Best Whip. Two-time scooter world champion Jayden Sharman is also scheduled to compete in the inaugural Bluff Men’s Scooter Park Best Trick event. The event will showcase athletes representing X Games League clubs from New York, Tokyo, São Paulo and Los Angeles while highlighting emerging and established competitors from around the world. The championship is expected to draw fans to the Caesars Superdome for elite competition and entertainment, further expanding New Orleans’ portfolio of major sporting events. Organizers say the event underscores the city’s growing role as a destination for international sports competitions while introducing the X Games to a new host market. ...read more read less