Rebecca Klein’s kids were ski novices when they checked in at Vermont’s Smugglers' Notch resort for a weeklong stay recently. They didn’t stay that way for long.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
On the bus going to Cypress Mountain, American snowboarder Seth Wescott asked a press aide if she could do him a favor. He had a flag that he was going to need at the end of the day, when he won the gold medal in snowboard cross, and he wanted her to keep it for him until he needed it.
Germany's Amelie Kober and Andreas Prommegger of Austria collected parallel giant slalom victories Saturday in the final tune-up before the Vancouver Olympics.
Nick Baumgartner has put himself in the running to make the U.S. Olympic team with a third-place finish in a World Cup snowboardcross event.
Americans Nate Holland and Lindsey Jacobellis won World Cup snowboardcross races Sunday to improve their chances of making the U.S. Olympic team.
The money goes where the medals are — one of those Darwinian truths that often undercuts the oft-told Olympic fairy tale about the journey being as important as the result.
The clock is ticking, the venues are ready and athletes, officials and sports-minded travelers are turning their attention to the southwest corner of British Columbia. The are now one year away (February 12-28, 2010), and the buzz is building from the streets of Vancouver to the slopes of Whistler.
Americans Kelly Clark and Louie Vito won the halfpipe events in snowy conditions at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix on Saturday.
A half-dozen ski resorts in New England and the West are joining in protests against two new lines of snowboards that feature images of Playboy models and cartoons of self-mutilation.
Everyone's heard of a bicycle built for two, but how about a two-person snowboard? Butch Brady built one and recently teamed up with another snowboarder, Eric Sweet, to make some two-man turns down the Teewinot run at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.