by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis became the first American gold medalist at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, jumping to an early lead and holding on to win the women’s snowboardcross on Wednesday. Sixteen years after falling in the homestretch of the inaugural Olympic...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The stars were out at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, including snowboarders Julia Marino, Jamie Anderson and Red Gerard and figure skaters Vincent Zhou and Karen Chen. Marino, taking silver in women’s snowboarding slopestyle, grabbed the first medal of...
by admin | Feb 4, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When the world met Jamie Anderson eight years ago, she became the eccentric Olympic champion, the woman whose candles, crystals and essential oils stirred as much curiosity as her snowboarding prowess. She was the alpha free spirit in a sport of unorthodox characters,...
by admin | Feb 1, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Maddie Mastro is ready for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics — because she’s been preparing for it her whole life. The 21-year-old from Wrightwood, California, grew up a short distance from Mountain High, the popular winter resort located just over an hour away...
by admin | Jan 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The reigning snowboard cross world champion, Charlotte Bankes, and Sochi 2014 freestyle skiing silver medallist, Gus Kenworthy, are the headline acts in a 21-strong squad of skiers and snowboarders who are aiming to help Team GB achieve their greatest Winter Olympics...
by admin | Jan 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Czech Eva Samková, the 2014 Olympic snowboard cross champion, will miss the Beijing Games due to an ankle injury that has kept her out of competition since early December. Samková, last season’s World Cup leader, needed surgery on the ankle and, after six weeks of...
by admin | Jan 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
After Chloe Kim returned home from the 2018 Olympics in South Korea, she put her gold medal in what felt at the time like the right place: a trash bin at her parents’ house. “I hated life,” Kim, now 21, recalls over plates of pad thai in the airy four-bedroom home in...
by admin | Dec 26, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to snowboarder Chloe Kim who has now officially qualified for the Olympics! ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Covid which has affected the competition int he skiing world in particular this...
by admin | Dec 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Chloe Kim, Jamie Anderson and Red Gerard are set to go for repeat Olympic gold in Beijing. Shaun White hasn’t qualified yet. The first U.S. snowboarders met Olympic selection criteria via world rankings updated Monday. U.S. Ski and Snowboard rules state that the top...
by admin | Dec 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Chloe Kim won her first event of the Olympic season, while Ayumu Hirano landed the first triple cork in halfpipe competition at Dew Tour on Sunday. Kim landed a pair of 1080s on the last run of the women’s event at Copper Mountain, Colorado, to overtake Spain’s...
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