Snowboarding February 2010 Archive

If you're near Sunday River, you should probably make plans to get here tomorrow. Seriously. I arrived at the resort Friday night with around three feet of new snow to ... Read More

The Men's Parallel Giant Slalom (PGS) will be held today at Cypress Mountain outside Vancouver. After nearly two weeks of emotional highs and lows, this event marks the final snowboarding ... Read More

Dutch snowboarder Nicolien Sauerbreij took Gold in the Women's Parallel Giant Slalom on Friday, with Ekaterina Ilyulkhina of Russia taking the Silver, and Austrian Marion Kreiner rounding out the top ... Read More

The Women's Parallel Giant Slalom snowboard race is being held today at Cypress Mountain outside of Vancouver. The event involves two snowboarders careening head-to-head down identical courses. It is less ... Read More

Olympic Gold medalist Shaun White is scheduled to appear on the newly reincarnated Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday, March 2nd. At this point, it looks as though White's ... Read More

Oops. Olympic Halfpipe Bronze Medalist Scotty Lago left the Olympic village in Vancouver Friday after risqué photos of a fan kissing and biting his newly acquired medal surfaced on celebrity ... Read More

Australian Torah Bright won the Gold medal tonight in the Women's Halfpipe competition, with American Hannah Teter taking second for the Silver. Kelly Clark from the U.S. rounded out ... Read More

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Spanish snowboarder Queralt Castellet has been taken to the hospital as a precaution after a fall during training, and will not be competing ... Read More

The women's halfpipe finals are set, with action beginning at 6 p.m. local time (9 p.m. EST) from Cypress Mountain outside Vancouver. The women's halfpipe finals will feature (in no particular ... Read More

The first women's halfpipe runs of the night are in the bag, with the top six women advancing directly to the finals later this evening (6 p.m. local, 9 p.m. ... Read More

The Women's Halfpipe competition is set to get underway shortly, and the buzz surrounding Torah Bright possibly throwing a double-cork is growing by the minute. The trick, which has become ... Read More

The Women's Halfpipe competition is being held today at Cypress Mountain in Vancouver, with qualifying runs scheduled for 12:30 p.m. local time (3:30 p.m. EST). The finals are scheduled for ... Read More

Men's Halfpipe results are in from Cypress Mountain in Vancouver, with American Shaun White taking the Gold medal. White becomes the first snowboarder to ever successfully defend the Gold medal ... Read More

The Men's Snowboard Halfpipe Qualifiers are in the books...here's who has advanced to the finals right now: Shaun White (USA) Louie Vito (USA) Peetu Piiroinen (Finland) Ryoh Aono (Japan) Kazuhiro Kokubo (Japan) Iouri Podladtchikov (Switzerland) Finals begin ... Read More

It's been the most talked about snowboarding trick for over a year, and tonight, it finally gets unveiled for the world at large to see in the Men's Halfpipe competition ... Read More

When the U.S. Snowboard team hits the slopes tonight at Cypress Mountain for the Men's Olympic Halfpipe competition, they're guaranteed to be sporting a different look than all the ... Read More

Men's halfpipe, the snowboarding event many consider to be the Winter Olympics' premiere showcase of snowboarding talent, is scheduled for this evening. Qualification runs begin at 1:05 p.m. local time ... Read More

Rain and fog delayed the start of the Women's Snowboard Cross event at Cypress Mountain outside Vancouver, but that didn't stop the ladies from raging down the hill once conditions ... Read More

Fog and rain have again conspired to delay an Olympic event in Vancouver. The Women's Snowboard Cross was originally scheduled to begin qualifying heats at 10 a.m. local time. That ... Read More

Despite horrible weather and snow conditions that forced Olympic organizers in Vancouver to refund nearly $400,000 worth of spectator tickets, American Seth Wescott was able to battle the field Monday ... Read More

This is it. After years of work, billions of dollars and tons of blood, sweat, and tears on the part of both organizers and athletes, the 2010 Winter Olympics officially ... Read More

And I thought Northern New England was suffering from a lack of snow...Olympic organizers in Vancouver are scrambling at the moment to ensure the freestyle snowboarding and skiing events have ... Read More