[OLYMPICS] Shaun White Finishes Fourth in Snowboard Halfpipe Olympic Final in Last Ever Event before Retirement Shaun White’s competitive career is over. It ended with a fall on his final run in the halfpipe final and just missing out on a podium finish, coming in fourth. “I’m not sad. I’m proud of what I put down. And I can’t help but think if I would have hit the podium in third, I would have wanted second. And […] Olympics SnowBrains | February 11, 2022 0 Comments
[OLYMPICS] Team USA’s Chloe Kim Takes Gold in Snowboard Halfpipe Relive the gold medal-winning run from @ChloeKim! #WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/EP7RnV2qxf — NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 10, 2022 Team USA’s Chloe Kim defended her 2018 Olympic gold by winning again at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Thursday. She is the first woman ever to win back-to-back snowboard halfpipe golds. Kim, 21, set the benchmark on her first run, scoring 94 by landing […] Industry News SnowBrains | February 10, 2022 0 Comments
[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
[OLYMPICS] Jessie Diggins Wins US’s First Medal in Cross Country Sprint Event The Olympics are underway, and history is being made across all events. Jessie Diggins won the US its first medal in the cross country sprint event. She came in third, following Sweden’s Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist in first and second. Diggins and Dahlqvist battled it out to the finish line. With Dahlqvist narrowly beating her, ending up ahead and […] Olympics Aunika Skogen | February 8, 2022 0 Comments
[OLYMPICS] Men’s Downhill Race Recap: Beat Fuez Wins First Swiss Downhill Olympic Title In 12-Years Forty control gates, two training runs, nearly a kilometer of vertical descent (2933ft), no test event, and a postponed race day. This was the story of the buildup to the first Alpine Skiing event of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China. The Men’s Downhill is one of the most popular events in the Winter Olympics, and this year’s […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | February 7, 2022 0 Comments
[OLYMPICS] O Canada! Snowboarder Max Parrot Wins Canada’s First Gold Medal at Beijing Olympics Max Parrot has won Olympic gold in men’s slopestyle, bringing home Canada’s first gold in this year’s games. The 27-year-old snowboarder, the pride of Bromont Mountain, beamed with pure joy in post-competition interviews after the “biggest run” of his life (so far), a life that in the past four years has included a cancer diagnosis and recovery, and recovery from […] Olympics Jacqui Davis | February 7, 2022 1 Comment
[OLYMPICS] Mikaela Shiffrin Out of Olympic Giant Slalom After First Run Two-Time Olympic Gold Medallist Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympic Giant Slalom campaign in Beijing was over as quickly as it began. The 26-year-old superstar from Colorado seemed to be on impeccable form in the leadup to the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, with Giant Slalom World Cup wins in Soelden, Austria, and Courchevel, France earlier this season. Shiffrin started the Beijing Giant Slalom […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | February 7, 2022 0 Comments
Ironic Environmental Cost of 100% Artificial Snow at Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics have officially begun! Unfortunately, we may have seen more fake snowflakes during the opening ceremony than we will real ones over the next two weeks in Beijing. The images of brown mountains with small bands of snow are jarring for a competition celebrating snow sports. These Winter Olympics will be the first to use 100% artificial […] Olympics SnowBrains | February 6, 2022 3 Comments