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Snowboarding is a winter sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow while standing on a board attached to a rider's feet, using a special boot set onto a mounted binding.
Read More at Wikipedia ›VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Gone from the Olympics after risque photos of him appeared on the Internet, bronze-medal snowboarder Scotty Lago joked with his Twitter followers Saturday that he's home, and keeping the medal in a safe spot, for now.
"Got home this morning to all my homies," he said on his Twitter site. "Such a good Olympic experience. Keeping my medal in a safe spot for now haha."Lago was at a party Thursday night, wearing a Team USA T-shirt, when someone snapped a photo of a woman kneeling below his waist to kiss the medal. He made the decision to go home shortly after the picture turned up on the TMZ Web site Friday.U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun and chairman Larry Probst said Lago's decision to go home came before the federation had a chance to react to the situation."He put the code of conduct on himself, decided the correct thing was to go home," Blackmun said.Added Probst: "He made that call, and it was the right decision."In the wake of incidents of...Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday, nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah.Burke, who lived near Whist...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Winter Olympics officials will eliminate two days of halfpipe training as they continue to add snow to Cypress Mountain, site of t...
Not only did American Seth Westcott win gold in Monday's snowboardcross competition, but the event came to a merciful conclusion without any substantial harm (i.e. d...
Former swimmer Matt Dunn, who competed in three Olympics for Australia and is now a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency's athlete committee, warned those using pe...
WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The fans were waiting. Shaun White could see them packed in the stands at the bottom of the hill ready for snowboarding's gre...
CHICAGO (AP) — Snowboarding's greatest showman might have an Olympic encore in mind.Fresh off his jaw-dropping victory in Vancouver, Shaun White showed up to cheers ...
After an unsuccessful legal battle for inclusion at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, women's ski jumping won its place Wednesday on the program for the 2014 Winter Games...
Snowstorms used to mean long days spent making snow angels and having snowball fights followed by big mugs of hot cocoa topped with marshmallows. Alas, we're not kid...
By Julian LindenVANCOUVER (Reuters) - Six memorable moments from the Vancouver Olympics.- - -Bode Miller ( Alpine skiing )As a multiple world champion and World Cup ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — So these won't be remembered as the Vonn-couver Olympics after all. It's looking like they will belong to the entire U.S. delegati...
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC desperately needed some good news in prime time and, so far, the Olympics have provided it.Through four nights, household ratings for the Vancouv...
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Young, well-spoken, an envelope-pushing sex symbol and, most of all, extremely talented in a popular action sport, Sarah Burke has everything the...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Shaun White might be better known as a skateboarder and Torah Bright might be surfing today if it weren't for Sherman Poppen.Poppe...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Snow or no snow, freestyle skiing and snowboarding at Cypress Mountain will go forward.Crews are working around the clock using na...
King of the comeback, Chris Klug is heading back to the Olympics.Eight years after bringing his inspirational story to Salt Lake City, the 37-year-old snowboarder wi...
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Shaun White received what a Winter X Games doctor called a thorough medical evaluation before he was cleared to head back down the superpipe afte...
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Lots of people like to say they were there at the beginning.Jake Burton really was.The man who had a feeling the snowboard could provide more tha...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The chief of sport for the Vancouver Olympics says Cypress Mountain is now in prime condition for its remaining events.Rain played...
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Snowboardcross rider Nate Holland was cruising along in his semifinal run when a spray of snow suddenly shielded his vision, a pileup of crashed ...
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