Megan lays down a bronze-medal run at WX '09.

Megan lost her best friend and traveling companion, Shy, to Cancer this summer.

Cold kickin' it like a man with his own 22-foot halfpipe should be.

Burke boosting smoothly with style for days. No wonder she has five WX medals.

White, before the "over preparation." Winter X 2009

Even WX gold medalists have time for manicures. Golden in '09.

...remember the good ole' days, like when Travis Pastrana dialed in his TP 720's before X Games

Winter X Games 12/Snowmobile Freestyle/Daniel Bodin

If he can overcome nerves, 2010 could finally be Bodin's year for WX gold.

Definition of frustration? Three Winter X Games, three fourth-place finishes

Faric dislocated her hip less than a month before WX '09 bronze.

Faric follows Seraina Murk and Magdalena Jonsson over the final jump at WX '09.

Simon Dumont soars in the pipe at Winter X Games 13

...of speaking. Levi Levallee got the ball rolling, pulling the first snowmobile double backflip at Winter X Games 13 (bottom left), followed by Anthony Napolitan's first BMX double front flip at X Games...

...Shane McConkey (center) was killed a ski-BASE jumping accident in Italy. FMX star and 2008 X Games gold medalist Jeremy Lusk (far right) passed away after a tragic FMX crash in Costa Rica...

Sure, action-sports athletes get TV time ... during the X Games. It isn't often that people from our world appear on big network shows, but 2009...