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Life after greatness: What happens when a sport loses its GOAT?
There’s no denying that GOATs are great for a sport when they’re still active. Michael Jordan, Tony Hawk, and other best-to-ever-do-its pushed their sports to popularity not seen since, but led to fans coming down off a trip so perfect that they were left fiending for the next fix of greatness perso...
Longtime Team USA snowboard coach under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct
You can add “Sexual misconduct allegations against a U.S. coach” to the list of off-the-slopes issues overshadowing the on-snow and -ice accomplishments at the Winter Olympics. In a series of Instagram posts Friday, former U.S. snowboard cross athlete Callan Chythlook-Sifsof alleged current U.S. sno...
International athletes to watch at this year’s Winter Games
Finding noteworthy athletes from the rest of the world might still be easier than cherry picking from the America tree, but it’s harder to decide which multi-medalist athlete or teenage phenom to leave off the list. I tried to get a nice mix of both, but there are quite a few times when I simply had...
Shaun White isn’t worthy of a spot in the Olympics — discretionary or otherwise
The 2022 Winter Olympics are almost here and that means everyone needs to bone up on their winter U.S. athlete checklist. Let’s see here. Lindsey Vonn retired, so she’s gone. Mikaela Shiffrin isn’t the new Vonn, she’s substantially better and will probably win a gold or two. Fan favorite Chloe Kim a...
The Last Holdouts Where The War Between Skiers And Snowboarders Is Still Being Fought
On the surface, the rivalry between skiers and snowboarders once had all the classic Snobs vs. Slobs tropes. The stuffy, elitists skiers, with their skin-tight ski-suits, champagne, and love for rules and propriety. The punk-kid snowboarders, loud and brash, with cheap beers stuffed into the pockets...
Chloe Kim Nails Trick No Woman Has Ever Done In Competition
My fellow shredders, get a load of Olympic conqueror Chloe Kim landing this super rad frontside double cork 1080 on a halfpipe in Switzerland. ...
Ester Ledecká Wins Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom, Is First Winter Olympian To Win Two Different Sports At Same Olympics
Ester Ledecká, who basically won Super-G in alpine skiing by accident on a pair of borrowed skis, claimed gold in her primary event as the Czech sailed to the finish of the snowboard parallel giant slalom well ahead of silver medalist Selina Joerg....
Lindsey Jacobellis Comes Up Agonizingly Short Yet Again<em></em>
American Lindsey Jacobellis is perhaps the greatest boardercross racer of all-time. She’s won 10 X-Games golds and five world championships, though the Olympics have been anomalously cruel to her. You probably remember her fall at the 2006 Turin Olympics, when she showed off with an unnecessary gra...
An Austrian Snowboard Racer Broke His Neck And Finished His Race Anyway
Markus Schairer was in fourth position heading towards the penultimate jump of the first quarterfinal of men’s snowboard cross when something went wrong that caused his board to get out from under him. Schairer flailed in the air, then came down hard straight on his back, breaking his fifth cervical...
Nothing Happened To Shaun White
American snowboarder Shaun White won another Olympic gold medal in the halfpipe yesterday. The event was broadcast on NBC, and throughout the competition White was talked about as an American hero and champion. It wasn’t unexpected, as the media often equates skill with a ball, bat, or in this case ...
Shaun White Wins Halfpipe Gold Again
Shaun White’s still got it. The 31-year-old, after posting an insane 98.50 score in qualifying, earned his third-career Olympic gold medal with his third run of 97.75 points in a halfpipe competition that became somewhat muted following a disastrous crash on the halfpipe by Yuto Totsuka. White beat ...
Japanese Snowboarder Yuto Totsuka Carted Off After Halfpipe Disaster
16-year-old Japanese snowboarder Yuto Totsuka left the halfpipe on a medical sled after a disastrous crash on the lip of the halfpipe....
The Chloe Kim Experience Was A Blast
There’s a sort of dissonance to watching American snowboarder Chloe Kim compete, and it goes a long way towards explaining why the experience is such a thrill. Kim cheerfully, casually upends everything that is supposed to be true about a 17-year-old’s place at a marquee sporting event like the Olym...
Slovenian Snowboarder Tit Stante Has A Message For The World
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Chloe Kim Gets Gold, Does Back-To-Back 1080s In Victory-Lap Third Run<em></em>
Chloe Kim lived up to the hype during the women’s halfpipe final, putting forth a gold-medal performance on her very first run of the day. With a score of 93.75 there, the 17-year-old American easily jumped out to first place, and no one managed to catch her for the rest of the event:...
Snowboarders Blast Olympic Organizers For Forcing "Shitshow" Slopestyle Final To Go On In High Winds
The women’s snowboard slopestyle final, a disaster amid high winds, should not have been contested today. This seems an inarguable statement unless you’re one of the organizers who decreed that it go on because the Olympics were desperate for some marquee programming to fill a big hole on the schedu...
Some Ridiculous Winds Couldn't Keep Jamie Anderson From Another Slopestyle Gold
The snowboarding women’s slopestyle final at this Olympics was a frustrating, unfair event, marked by high winds that cancelled the qualifying round and screwed with pretty much every competitor in the final. Still, despite the awful conditions that even cut down on the number of runs each woman cou...
17-Year-Old Red Gerard Wins Gold In Slopestyle
Red Gerard, who was born in freaking 2000, claimed the first medal for the U.S. at these Pyeongchang Games by winning men’s slopestyle with a perfect final run that launched him past some of the event’s favorites....
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CBC snowboarding analyst Craig McMorris was pretty pleased with Seppe Smits scoring a 69 during today’s slopestyle final. ...
Snowboarding Enthusiast Sam Hinkie Would Like You To Toss Him Some Links
So what is former 76ers general manager and The Process architect Sam Hinkie up to these days?...