Shaun White Preparing for His 5th Olympic Games The 2022 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, China, and viewers may be watching a familiar athlete. The 35-year-old snowboarder Shaun White is training for his potentially fifth Olympic Games. Related: Why Snowboarders Hate Shaun White White is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, winning in 2006, 2010, and 2018. Additionally, White holds the world record for the most […] Olympics Breya Bergom | October 18, 2021 0 Comments
Beijing, China Gets the 2022 Winter Olympics Beijing, China was awarded the 2022 Winter Olympics today, Friday. Beijing, the capital of China will be the first city to have hosted both a Summer and Winter Olympic Games. Beijing hosted the Summer Olympic Games back in 2008. “Summer or Winter Games, they all represent the Olympic ideals. It’s the right time, the perfect time, for the Olympics to return to Beijing.” – Yao Ming, the Chinese N.B.A. star who retired in 2011 To be honest, the choices for the 2020 Winter Olympics weren’t great. It was Beijing […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 31, 2015 1 Comment
NO Skiing Big Air for 2018 Winter Olympics | Big Air Snowboarding Approved The Los Angeles Times is reporting today that both Snowboarding Big Air & Skiing Big Air have been added to the 2018 Winter Games. We just discovered that this is not true. Skiing Big Air was proposed to the IOC for 2018, but was not approved. Snowboarding Big Air was approved. The IOC’s reason for not approving Skiing Big Air? Essentially, they are saying that Skiing Big Air isn’t entertaining enough… IOC Press Release […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 8, 2015 1 Comment
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 […] SnowBrains | April 16, 2014 5 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
All 4 Americans Qualify for Men’s Ski Slopestlye Finals: All 4 American skier slopestyle athletes have qualified for the the slopestyle finals that will be shown on US television tonight. It’s gonna be a good show. Our 4 guys are Joss Christensen, Nick Goepper, Gus Kenworthy, and Bobby Brown. Joss crushed it and qualified 1st while Bobby barely made the cut in 12th place, the last place […] SnowBrains | February 13, 2014 0 Comments
VIDEO: Longest Ski Jump in History = 809 Feet We thought this would be a great way to get us all primed up for the 2014 Winter Olympics that about to occur in only 3 days. This guy flies so far that he almost lands in the flats. The last 3rd of his flight, this guy looks exactly like a flying squirrel. Once he lands, even he is blown away by what just happened. The announcers go nuts in Norwegian and the crowd is losing it. Half the fun of this video is the celebration post jump. In total, this jumper, Norwegian Johan Remen Evensen, flies 246.6 meters or 809 feet before touching back […] SnowBrains | February 4, 2014 0 Comments
USA to Send Warships to Russian Olympics for Athlete Extraction: Security will be a major concern at the Sochi Olympics next month. The USA Government isn’t going to take any chances with its top winter athletes. They’re sending several warships and aircraft to Russia as a way to remove American athletes if anything gets weird. […] Olympics SnowBrains | January 22, 2014 0 Comments
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