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U.S. Olympic Snowboard-Cross Bronze Medalist Alex Deibold Announces Retirement

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Olympic bronze medalist Alex Deibold announced his retirement on the weekend on his social media accounts. Deibold had been on the U.S. Snowboard Team, competing in the snowboard-cross discipline representing America for almost 20 years. Deibold grew up in Vermont before moving to Boulder, CO, when he joined the U.S. Snowboard Team. Making the Olympics had been his dream since […]

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Julia Schneemann | May 2, 2023
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Dust Storm from the Sahara Turns European Ski Resorts a ‘Mars-Like’ Orange

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Skiers and snowboarders were met with orange-tinted snow in Sochi, Russia, this weekend. The usually powdery white snow turned colors due to a sandstorm that blew across the Sahara Desert in North Africa in a phenomenon that happens only once or twice a decade. It’s no wonder that so many spectators described the snow as Mars-like because very little white […]

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Steven Agar | March 26, 2018
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Nearly Half Of The Sochi Olympics’ Russian Medalists Were Doping

According to the New York Times,ย nearly half of Russia’s medal-winning athletes from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, whereย Russia led the medal count, were doping with illegal performance-enhancing drugs at the time of the Games.ย This doping was planned years in advance to ensure the dominance at the Olympic games. Thisย breaking newsย leaked as a resultย of revelationsย from Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, the director […]

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Chris Wallner | May 12, 2016
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IOC Says Number of Injuries in Olympic Slopestyle is “Unacceptable”

Ski and snowboard slopestyle debuted for the first time in the Olympics this year in Sochi, Russia. The course was big and intimidating. So much so, that legendary snowboarder, Shaun White, pulled out of slopestyle just days before the competition. Maybe Shaun was right… The […]

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Weekend in Avalanche News | 3/24/14

After a quiet week of Avalanche activity in the United States, the weekend crowds have found places to trigger slides. While only one person was killed in the United States other areas reported avalanche fatalities. One man is dead following an avalanche on Granite Mountain near Snoqualmie Pass, Washington on Saturday. Two men were hiking in the Granite Mountain area on Saturday when the avalanche occurred. One man was hit by the slide but able to walk out and contacted […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | March 24, 2014
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“Life’s short, Live it Fast” | Andrew Kurka, Representing the U.S. at the Paralympics

With the Olympic games long gone, and Putin invading Ukraine, its easy to forget that some of our American athletes are still in Sochi. Yes the Paralympic games begin in two days and stretch from March 7th to the 16th in Sochi. Andrew Kurka is currently representing the United States with the help High Fives in Sochi at the Paralympic Games in the Adaptive Ski division, and has been unheard of for the most part unfortunately. I had to opportunity to speak with Andrew over the last few weeks heading into the games and would like to […]

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Jesse Cassidy | March 5, 2014
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Squaw’s Julia Mancuso’s 4 Medals from 3 Olympics = Most for Any American Female

Squaw Valley’s Julia Mancuso just won her 5th Olympic Medal at her 3rd Olympic Games. Julia has won more Winter Olympic medals than any other US female alpine skier. “She was the gold medalist in the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, the silver medalist in both downhill and combined at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, and the bronze medalist in the combined at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Music.” – wikipedia Thank you for giving me this opportunity, I am inspired to be my best in every moment. Win or lose, I choose to shine […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | February 25, 2014
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Julia Mancuso Surfs Sochi After Winning Bronze Medal

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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
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