During the 2012 Winter X Games two things happened that have never happened in winter competition. Shaun White's perfect score of 100, after already securing his gold, and Heath Frisby's front flip on a snowmobile. Congrats to both. Where will competition be in just a few short years? I wonder. Always raise the [...]
Tragically, Canadian Sarah Burke, a pioneer in women's freeskiing, died Thursday January 19, 2012 from crash-related injuries, during a training run at the bottom of the superpipe in Utah. She was 29 years old. Admittedly, I knew very little about Sarah Burke, as a person, prior to the last few months. I knew her [...]
Actually – it was a wrap 3 weeks ago. I have not had a post in quite some time. Leading up to the Olympics I was absolutely sure there was going to be a great deal to write about. That I was going to cover as many of the great stories as possible. The reality [...]
Shaun White snowboarded to achieve back-to-back Olympic Golds this week at Vancouver, and it appears as if his Project X training has paid off. Shaun's first run – 46.8 Enough to put him clearly ahead in the competition. Standing atop the mouth of the pipe, Shaun watched as each of his competitors could not [...]
Shaun White landed his new trick Friday night, a Doublecork McTwist 1260, at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Olympic qualifier in Park City, Utah. With a near perfect score of 49.0, White has not only secured a spot on the Olympic team, but has made it absolutely clear to the other Olympic competitors, that he [...]
An embattled mix of international politics, tradition and claimed discrimination came to an end this week when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear an appeal in the fight to allow female ski jumpers the right to compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics. There are certainly two sides of the story on this one, [...]