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Gus Kenworthy: Team GB or Team USA for the 2022 Winter Olympics?

Gus Kenworthy: Team USA or Team GB

Gus Kenworthy, a two-time Olympian for Team USA, revealed in a statement from his agent that he is open to switching teams to represent Great Britain at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Kenworthy is a world-renowned freestyle skier and has previously competed in the halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air competitions, earning him many medals including a silver for Team […]
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Liz Swaney Exploits Olympic Loophole to Qualify for Games | Completes Halfpipe Run without a Single Trick

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Liz Swaney may not be hitting the Olympic halfpipe as hard as the other Olympic skiers, but she’s definitely living her life at full send, reports TGR. Her score in the women’s ski halfpipe qualifiers wasn’t groundbreaking, a mere 31.40, but what is compelling is the full life this 33-year-old has had. Swaney, born and raised in the United States but […]
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Mammoth Team Snowboarders Set To Shred At The PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games

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Mammoth Mountain has four snowboarders ready to shred as the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games kicked off Friday!  This year Mammoth hometown athletes, Shaun White, Kelly Clark, Maddie Mastro, and Chloe Kim, all earned their spot on Team USA.  If you’re unfamiliar with these new and maybe not so new athletes we’ve got you covered.  1. Shaun White Shaun White heads […]
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Play Like A Champion | Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA Parks + Halfpipe

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[sponsored by Sierra-at-Tahoe] Sierra-at-Tahoe: How legit are the terrain parks and halfpipe at Sierra-at-Tahoe? Enough so to serve as the stomping grounds to many a world-class athlete. From groms to Olympians, Sierra-at-Tahoe’s terrain parks and halfpipe allow every level of park enthusiast to hone their craft. Carefully curated and painstakingly maintained, the parks have even earned a Top 10 ranking by […]
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Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA Season Recap 2016/17 | 255″ of Snow in January Alone…

[sponsored by Sierra-at-Tahoe] Sierra-at-Tahoe enjoyed one powder cycle after another last season. By season’s end, the resort  had received over 625 inches of snow, with an awe-inspiring 50+ powder days. January alone saw nearly 22 feet of snow! 2016/17 saw 625″ of snowfall! Yes, it was a mighty good year for Sierra-at-Tahoe. There were plenty of highlights to choose from […]
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Athletes Road To 2018 Winter Olympics Starts & Ends In Mammoth Mountain, CA

Mammoth Mountain, CA now has the first ever “Progression Bag” on snow. Olympic Athletes training in Mammoth have the advantage with this new technology. Mammoth Mountain Unbound Terrain Parks were named #1 in the 2017 Park Poll by Newschoolers & TransWorld Snowboarding. “Progression Airbag: Mammoth Mountain’s new “Progression Bag” is the future of training at highest levels of slopestyle freeskiing and snowboarding, […]
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Friday Fun: “SLOPESTYLE the movie” | Starring USA’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medalists

The USA swept the medals in the Olympic Ski Halfpipe in Sochi, Russia last month. won Gold, Nick Geopper won Silver, and Gus Kenworthy won Bronze. These guys were famous in the ski industry before, but not these guys are “nationwide” and loving it. They recently made an appearance on VH1 in a funny mini flick about them being ski hunks. This video likely caps off the weirdness […]
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Tahoe’s David Wise Wins Gold in Ski Halfpipe in Driving Sleet

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We know, we know, David Wise is from Reno, not Tahoe, but you can’t ski halfpipe in Reno. You gotta come up to Lake Tahoe, California to do that. So, we’ll claim him. And why wouldn’t we wanna claim David. The guy is a white-hot halfpipe robot right now. He won the gold medal at X-Games in 2012, 2013, and 2014 before winning a gold medal in the first ever Olympic ski halfpipe competition yesternight. Very impressive, David. […]
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Shaun White Does NOT Medal in Halfpipe | Swiss I-Pod Takes Gold

Shaun White did not get an Olympic medal this year in halfpipe. The last time someone other than Shaun won gold in halfpipe was in 2002. A huge congrats has to go out to Switzerland’s I-Pod (Iouri Podladtchikov) for winning gold and an even bigger congrats to Japan for taking the Silver and Bronze medals. 15-year-old Ayumu Hirano took Silver and 18-year-old Taku Hiraoka grabbed the bronze. There were no American’s on the podium for the first time since 1998 when halfpipe made it’s Olympic debut. […]
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Shaun White Bails Out of Olympic Slopestyle Competition

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“After much deliberation with my team, I have made the decision to focus solely on trying to bring home the third straight gold medal in halfpipe for Team USA. The difficult decision to forego slopestyle is not one I take lightly as I know how much effort everyone has put into holding the slopestyle event for the first time in Olympic history, a history I had planned on being a part of. However, with the practice runs I have taken, even after course modifications and watching fellow athletes get […]
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