[OLYMPICS] Men’s Super-G Race Recap: USA’s Ryan Cochran-Siegle Captures First Men’s Skiing Medal Since Sochi Ryan Cochran-Siegle is an Olympic Medallist. The 29-year-old from Vermont started 14th in the Men’s Super-G on February 8th and came to the bottom 0.04s behind Austrian super-star Matthias Mayer. Stefan Rogentin from Switzerland kicked off the second men’s alpine event of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. Rogentin took top honors in the training of the men’s Downhill but ended […] Phil Tremblay | February 8, 2022 0 Comments
Nearly Half Of The Sochi Olympics’ Russian Medalists Were Doping According to the New York Times, nearly half of Russia’s medal-winning athletes from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, where Russia led the medal count, were doping with illegal performance-enhancing drugs at the time of the Games. This doping was planned years in advance to ensure the dominance at the Olympic games. This breaking news leaked as a result of revelations from Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, the director […] Industry News Chris Wallner | May 12, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: The Worst Olympic Wipeouts @ Sochi We all know why we watch NASCAR: for the crashes. The same doesn’t exactly apply to Olympic sports, but we all like to watch wipeouts in one way, shape, or form. Right when it happens, it can be sad as some of these falls meant the end of someone’s Olympic medal dreams. Now that these wipe-outs are in the past, they’re kinda fun to watch. […] SnowBrains | February 25, 2014 0 Comments
Julia Mancuso Surfs Sochi After Winning Bronze Medal Squaw Valley’s Julia Mancuso, the most decorated female Winter Olympian in history, went surfing in Sochi, Russia last week. Julia is a surfer, has a house in Maui, and got invited to surf with Sal Masakela on her last day in Sochi, Russia’s Black Sea. Cool. “It was cold, but it wasn’t bad. I didn’t have a hoodie [an insulated neoprene hood] on, so I only lasted about 45 minutes. I caught four amazing waves. There were some big sets. Most of the waves were shoulder high. I caught some incredible waves all the way to the shore, so I was pretty stoked. We surfed up a storm, literally. There was a storm passing through and it died out in two hours, and the waves were gone after that. We hit it perfect.” – People Magazine […] SwellBrains | February 25, 2014 0 Comments
Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 Review & Recap The Olympics have drawn to a close and despite the skepticism, speculation, and minor mishaps Russia pulled off a very successful Games. Here, we bring you the two weeks in review from the highlights including a podium in slopestyle to the humor of the intwerwebs puns circulating around. In case you missed it, here are the Olympics in review, as […] SnowBrains | February 24, 2014 0 Comments
List of USA Olympic Medal Winners in Sochi, Russia: Athletes from the USA pulled in 28 medals (9 gold, 7 silver, 12 bronze) at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. This is 9 medals less than we brought home from Vancouver in 2010. The USA was stronger in Freestyle Skiing than in any other discipline. We […] SnowBrains | February 24, 2014 0 Comments
Final Winter Olympic Medal Count @ Sochi, Russia 2014 The 2014 Sochi, Russia Winter Olympics have come to a close. There were some fantastic moments and more than just a few heartbreaking ones. Just athletes from Lake Tahoe pulled in 4 Olympic medals this year (3 golds, one bronze). The US of A brought home 28 medals (9 gold, 7 silver, 12 […] SnowBrains | February 24, 2014 0 Comments
Sharing Courses with Men Taking a Big Toll on Women in Sochi | by New York Times In most Winter Olympic events (downhill skiing, ski jumping, bobsled, luge) women have their own course. At Sochi’s Extreme Park (slopestyle, halfpipe, skier cross) the men and women share the same courses. 16 of the 22 injuries that have occurred in the Extreme Park have been women. […] SnowBrains | February 20, 2014 1 Comment
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