Who was the first person fatally injured in the X Games held in the U.S.?

Caleb Moore was the first person to become a fatal casualty of the X-Games. These X-Games are an annual extreme sports event hosted, produced, and shown on U.S. television by ESPN.

Caleb was born in Krum, Texas, and he was injured on January 24, 2013, during the Snowmobile Freestyle part of Winter X Games XVII, which was held in Aspen, Colorado. During his crash, the 450-pound snowmobile came down on his chest. Caleb was able to walk away from the accident with help. He went to the hospital; and, they discovered bleeding around his heart. He succumbed to his injuries on January 31; he was 25 years old.

Caleb started off his career in extreme sports, racing ATVs when he was noticed by a scout. The scout suggested that he try snowmobiling; the only problem was that Caleb lived in Texas and there was no snow. In order to learn how to do snowmobile tricks, Moore's father built a special pit so he could train. Caleb's first X-Games competition was in 2010 where he got a Bronze medal in Freestyle. Every year from then on, Caleb Moore obtained a medal at the Winter X-Games.

January 24, 2013 was a bad day for the Moore family. Both Caleb and his younger brother, Colten, were competing in the Freestyle Competition at the Winter X-Games in Aspen, Colorado. Earlier in the day, Colten was injured and separated his pelvis. Caleb's run was even more devastating. His bad run turned out to be the last of his life; he was attempting a trick that he had performed many times before.

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Lawanta

Doing freestyle tricks on a 450 pound vehicle sounds very risky to begin with!😬

fdeisner

It is extremely unfortunate what happened to Caleb. The games are called X Games meaning eXtreme games denoting dangerous. When you're young you may feel you are invincible. I grew up on Long Island and from 16 yo until 20 yo I surfed from Easter until Thanksgiving using wetsuits in the colder months. I have even had my hair freeze. We mostly went between Long Beach Long Island and Gilgo Beach Long Island. We would get especially psyched up when there were small craft and/or hurricane warnings. We would go out in what we called washing machine days. Besides the large waves there were extreme rip currents. The larger the waves the further out in the ocean you would have to go. If you fell off your board you would have a long swim in those currents as your board would go all the way into the shore. This was before there were shock cords which were long bungee cords attached from the board to your ankle so the board would not go all the way into the shore which was a long swim. To me large surf was between 10 and 15 feet. I think it's totally insane for these people who surf 75 to 100 foot waves. You need to respect the danger and know your own limitations when participating in extreme sports.