Qualifying for X
BICYCLE STUNT

Bike Stunt Dirt
-Top 5 riders from 00 X Games
-Top 4 previously unqualified riders from 2001 CFB Finals
-Top 7 previously unqualified riders from 2001 CFB year end point standing
-Top 2 previously unqualified riders from Japan X Games
-Top 2 previously unqualified from European X Games

Vert, Park & Flat
-Top 5 riders from 00 X Games
-Top 2 previously unqualified riders from the 2001 X Trials, Grand Prarie, TX
-Top 2 previously unqualified from the 2001 X Trials, Bristol, CT
-Top 7 previously unqualified from the 2001 Bicycle Stunt Pro Series
-Top 2 previously unqualified from Japan X Games
-Top 2 previously unqualified from European X Games

DOWNHILL BMX

Twenty-seven names on the official list of the world’s most elite BMX professionals were selected from the group of athletes who made semi-main and/or main events during the three-race downhill BMX series that was televised on ESPN and ESPN2 last year. The final five racers on the list of 32 qualified athletes were handpicked by event officials based on their achievements in other forms of professional BMX, dirt-jumping and/or high-speed downhill bike competition.

AGGRESSIVE IN-LINE SKATING

Men's Street and Park:
-Top 4 2000 X Games
- Top 3 previously unqualified from 2000 ASA World Championships
- Top 2 previously unqualified from 2000 ASA World Rankings
- Winner 2000 European Amateur Championships
- Top 1 2000 Asian X Trials (street only)
- Top 1 previously unqualified from each of the following ASA Pro Tour events (6): (Louisville, Dallas, Bristol, Milwaukee, Rome, Barcelona)
- Top 1 previously unqualified rookie based on the 2001 ASA rankings after Rome (7)
- Two wildcards (8)
-Remaining spots filled by previously unqualified skaters based on ASA rankings

Women's Vert and Park
- Top 1 2000 X Games
- Top 1 previously unqualified from 2000 ASA World Championships
- Three street wildcards and two vert wildcards

SKATEBOARDING

Street and Vert
-1st place 2000 ESPN X Games San Francisco
-1st place Vans Triple Crown Finals Oceanside
-Top 1 previously unqualified Brazil World Cup Sao Paulo, Brazil
-Top 5 previously unqualified WCS World rankings 2000
-Top 2 previously unqualified skaters from the WCS North American Rankings 2000
-Top previously unqualified skater from the WCS European rankings 2000
-Top previously unqualified skater from ESPN B3, Anaheim, CA
-Top previously unqualified skater from ESPN B3 Louisville, KY
-Top previously unqualified skater Vancouver, BC Canada
-Top previously unqualified skater X Trials, Grand Prairie, TX
-Top previously unqualified skater. X Trials #2 Bristol, CT June 15 17
--Top previously unqualified skater World Championships Dortmund, Germany
-Top previously unqualified skater French World Cup Barritz,France
-Top previously unqualified skater Mystic Sk8 Cup Prague, Czech Republic
-Top previously unqualified skater European X Games Qualifier Barcelona, Spain

MOTO X

Freestyle
-1st-6th place X Games 00
-Top 3 previously unqualified WFA
-4 wildcard spots
-Alternate: WFA Qualified in Big Air
-Alternate: WFA Qualified in Step Up

Step Up
-1st-3rd Place X Games 00
-Top 6 previously unqualified WFA events
-Top 4 riders unqualified riders from X Games Freestyle event
-3 wild card spots
-2 alternates qualified into X Games Freestyle

Big Air
-Top 3 from Salt Lake City and Colorado Springs LXD Freeride tour stops
-7 Previously unqualified riders from WFA list
-3 Wild Card spots

Wild Cards Status - open only to those Domestic freestyle riders who attend WFA qualifying events on May 11/12, Salt Lake City and June 1/2 Colorado Springs. Riders failing to meet this criteria will only be awarded potential Wild Card status under the following circumstances:

1) Injured and unable to compete at above dates.
2) Foreign riders who have demonstrated exceptional ability in the field of freestyle motocross but who were only able to compete at one of the domestic events.

WAKEBOARDING

Men
-1st place 2000 ESPN X Games
-Top 5 from the 2000 Pro Wakeboard tour final standings
-Top 5 from X Games Wakeboard qualifier, April 5th
-Top 2 highest ranked riders on the current 2001 not yet invited
-1st place Asian X Games
-3 Wild card spots

Women
-1st place 2000 X Games
-Top three finishers on the 2000 Pro Wakeboard tour final standings
-Top three from X Games wakeboard qualifier, April 5
-Two wild card spots

STREET LUGE

-Top 4 finishers from 2000 Xtreme GP Super-Mass St. George, UT USA
-Top 8 finishers from 2000 Hot Heels Mass Knaurfel, Tyrol AUT
-Top 3 finishers from 2000 X Games Dual San Francisco, CA USA
-Top 3 finishers from 2000 X Games Super-Mass San Francisco, CA USA
-Top 4 finishers from 2001 Red Bull DHX Cape Town, South Africa
-Top 4 finishers from 2001 Xtreme GP Last Chance Qualifier St. George, UT USA
-Top 4 provisional positions at the discretion of ESPN & IGSA

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