What is it with the Swiss and Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom (PGS)?
After the SHEER, “SCHOCHING” victories of the Schoch Brothers yesterday, Swiss Miss Daniela Meuli took the Gold at the same event today.
Meuli competing at a pre-Olympic event (Source: NBC)
American Rosey Fletcher took the Bronze, vindicating the U.S. Men’s defeat yesterday. By the way, […]
The Schoch Brothers (SUI) of Philipp and Simon took HOME (literrally) the Gold and Silver in the Snowboarding Parallel Giant Slalom (PGS) event. No prize for guessing correctly for whom mom and dad rooted?
The victorious Schoch brothers (Source: NBC)
Tags: Snowboarding, Snowboard_Parallel_Giant_Slalom, Snowboard_PGS, struggles_and_triumphs, Torino_2006, winter-games, winter_olympics, winter_olympics_2006
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I thought long and hard about responding to my colleague’s (Aaron) post, Figure Skating is not a sport! On the one hard, it’s hard enough to follow the games and blog in a timely manner (not to mention that I have the ‘Technocrat Soapbox‘ to worry about as well), on the other, I feel quite […]
Unfortunately Linsey Jacobellis will likely be known for loosing the Gold rather than Winning the Silver. While by most accounts she was the most talented rider in the field, she did not earn the Gold metal.
I used to be a competitive snowboarder and hold two national titles (1996 USASA Apline Overall & Slalom) so I […]
As Ande mentioned earlier, Canadian Dominique Maltais received the Bronze in the Final match earlier .. (see the Final Results HERE) and Canadian Maelle Ricker was 4th.
Canadian Maelle Ricker of Whistler, B.C., was the first rider to go down in the final. She botched a jump, landing hard on her back, and was unable […]
Swiss Snowboarder Tanja Frieden took the Gold medal in the Women’s Snowboard cross final, but she was ably assisted by American Lindsey Jacobellis, who looked to have it all swen up and then fell on the last jump to only manage silve, Canadian Dominique Maltais took Bronze, Britain’s hope could only manage 13th.
Having never experienced […]
Seth Wescott has won gold in the Snowboard Cross event. Seth was predicted to be the winner of the event by many people and has lived up to those expectations. In the finals competing against Seth were Radoslav Zidek, Paul-Henri Delerue, and Jordi Font.
There are more posts about Seth Wescott at Snow Skills as […]
Drew Neilsen is currently at the top of THIS List
Rank / NOC / Snowboarder / Best Time
1 - CAN - Drew Neilson (1:19.93)
2 - SUI - Marco Huser (1:20.26)
3 - USA - Seth Wescott (1:20.69)
Results of Other Canadian Athletes
18 - CAN - Tom Velisek
20 - CAN - Jasey Jay Anderson
30 - CAN - Francois
Go Drew […]
Like what I predicted on the day of the Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony, recorded videos of various Olympic events are now available at Google Video.
Olympic Videos at Google Video (Source: Google)
You can watch events ranging from Alpine Skiing to Figure Skating to Snowboarding to Speed Skating.
Tags: News, opening_ceremony, Skiing, Snowboarding, techy-stuff, Torino_2006, turin, winter-games, winter_olympics, […]
Hannah Teter (46.4) and Gretchen Bleiler (43.4) provided a one-two punch for the U.S. by sweeping Gold and Silver at the Snowboarding Halfpipe event respectively.
Norwegian Kjersti Buaas (42.0) won the bronze, preventing a clean sweep of the medals by the Americans. Salt-Lake City Gold Medalist, Kelly Clark, could only manage a fourth place […]
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