by admin | Mar 26, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Snowboarding has made crucial progress toward accessibility in recent years. But inequities and pressure points still exist in the sport—whether it’s sponsor investment and media coverage for certain disciplines or support and opportunities for women and people of...
by admin | Feb 6, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Chloe Kim is back as if she never left. At the X Games Aspen over the weekend, the Olympic gold medalist became the first woman to land a 1260 in a women’s snowboard halfpipe competition. She did it during her final run, having already clinched her seventh X Games...
by admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Representation, SEW
When Clair Bidez posed for the 2010 SI Swimsuit Issue, she was on familiar territory. Rather than hitting the beach, as most brand photoshoots tend to, the former professional snowboarder was in her element in Whistler, Canada, where she posed for photographer Warwick...
by admin | Dec 29, 2023 | #MeToo, SEW
A California judge has dismissed two cases against former U.S. snowboard head coach Peter Foley, the national federation and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee because of lack of jurisdiction. “We acknowledge the Court’s recent decision...
by admin | Mar 2, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Lindsey Jacobellis became the oldest world championships medalist in snowboard cross, one year after becoming the oldest individual Olympic medalist and gold medalist in all of snowboarding. Jacobellis, 37, took bronze at worlds in Bakuriani, Georgia, on Wednesday....
by admin | Feb 3, 2023 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Three former U.S. snowboarders sued their former coach, the national snowboarding federation and the U.S. Olympic Committee on Thursday alleging sexual abuse that was covered up by the two sporting bodies, court documents showed. Rosey Fletcher, Erin O’Malley...
by admin | Jan 30, 2023 | Representation, SEW
South Korean Gaon Choi broke Chloe Kim‘s record as the youngest X Games snowboard halfpipe champion, winning at age 14 on Saturday in Aspen, Colorado. Choi, the world junior champion, landed three different 900s in her third of four runs to overtake two-time U.S....
by admin | Jan 27, 2023 | Representation, SEW
New Zealand snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott made history last February when she won slopestyle gold at the Beijing Olympics, marking the first-ever gold medal for her country in a Winter Games. But perhaps even more memorable was the scene that broke out after the...
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Jamie Anderson, a two-time Olympic snowboarding champion, announced she is pregnant. “The most precious and beautiful I’ve ever felt,” was posted on Anderson’s social media. “So incredibly grateful.” Anderson, a 32-year-old who is engaged to 2018 Canadian Olympic...
by admin | Apr 25, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Chloe Kim plans to take a full season off from competition before returning for a bid for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic halfpipe title. “Just for my mental health,” Kim told Cheddar. “Just want to kind of reset, don’t want to get right back into it after...
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