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
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 […] Olympics 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
Lake Tahoe Has More Medals Than Great Britain (And 67 Other Countries) That’s right, Lake Tahoe has cranked out more medals than Great Britain, Australia, and Latvia, among others. Is it because Tahoe holds the fountain of youth? Or perhaps because we’re the best skiers on the mountain? Whatever the reason may be, Lake Tahoe has produced some serious contenders and we like to say congratulations to not just the Lake Tahoe medal recipients but all the athletes representing Tahoe over seas in Sochi. […] SnowBrains | February 21, 2014 17 Comments
Maddie Bowman of Tahoe Adds to the US Medal Count With a Gold In Women’s Superpipe Tahoe athletes continue to deliver in Schoi, as Maddie Bowman took home the gold last night in Women’s Superpipe skiing. The Sochi Olympics mark the debut of skiers in the Superpipe, and so far US (and more specifically Tahoe) athletes have not disappointed. David Wise took home the gold the other night, and Maddie Bowman delivered a Gold Medal performance […] SnowBrains | February 20, 2014 0 Comments
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