The advent of the Pipe Dragon, a machine to cut halfpipes through snow, enabled new aerial stunts, and when snowboarding debuted at the 1998 Olympics, the halfpipe was the sport’s biggest draw.

The boards used in freestyle events (halfpipe, slopestyle, big air) are short to allow for tricks, wide to increase balance, and flexible to allow the boarder to ride in either direction. The nose and ...

When was snowboarding added to the Olympics? Snowboarding first appeared at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The only events were men's and women's giant slalom and halfpipe. Snowboard cross ...

Ester Ledecka became the first person to win world championships medals in Alpine skiing and snowboarding in the same season, seven years after her unprecedented gold medals in both sports at the ...

Olympics 2018: Team USA by the numbers, from ages to heights to top hometown Figure skater and California native Vincent Zhou is making headlines and history this week. At 17 years old ...

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Since the 2018 Olympics, she has competed in 23 World Cup events in snowboarding versus more than 75 World Cup races in Alpine skiing. However, she has been more successful in snowboarding with 11 ...

A scheduling issue at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics -- where the parallel GS in snowboarding and the Alpine ... to replicate that achievement from 2018. Italy's Roland Fischnaller, 44, won ...

The next big leap in snowboarding went down Sunday on a sun ... buzz of the halfpipe world as the sport makes its way to the Olympics, and probably beyond. “This is crazy,” said Ayumu ...

In 2014, during the Sochi Olympics, I was watching women’s snowboarding with a friend who works in the sports world. “The best snowboarder isn’t even here,” he said, “because she’s too ...